Problem structuring in participatory forest planning

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 26, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-11

  Khadka, Chiranjeewee ^a   Hujala, Teppo ^b   Wolfslehner, Bernhard ^a,c   Vacik, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c European Forest Institute Central East European Regional Office (EFICEEC)   (Austria)

Author keywords

Facilitated modelling; Participatory planning; PSM; Soft OR; Stakeholder involvement

Indexed keywords

FOREST PLANNING; KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE; MULTI-PURPOSE; OPERATIONAL RESEARCH; PARTICIPATORY PLANNING; PROBLEM STRUCTURING; PSM; PUBLIC PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOFT OR; STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT; THEORY AND PRACTICE; WELL-ALIGNED;

FORESTRY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84870533761     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2012.09.008     Document Type: Review

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