Capturing social impacts for decision-making: A multicriteria decision analysis perspective

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 608-616

  Estévez, Rodrigo A ^a   Walshe, Terry ^a   Burgman, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental problems; Human impacts; Multicriteria analysis; Natural; Proxy and constructed attributes; Social change process; Social impact assessment

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DATABASE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SOCIAL IMPACT; STAKEHOLDER; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84877334581     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12058     Document Type: Review

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