Developing an Information System for Sustainable Natural Resource Management in Alborz Watershed, Northern Iran

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 131-152

  Hosseini, Seyed Mahmood ^a   Rezaei, Abdolmotalleb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hard System Methodology; Information System (IS); Soft system methodology (SSM); Sustainable natural resource management (SNRM); Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874221539     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11213-012-9240-1     Document Type: Article

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