Modelling human-environment systems in transdisciplinary processes

iEMSs 2012 - Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1811-1818

  Seidl, R ^a   Le, Q B ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Integrated modelling; Participatory modelling; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872693629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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