Empirical guidelines for forest management decision support systems based on the past experiences of the expert's community

Forest Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 320-339

  Marques, A F ^a   Ficko, A ^b   Kangas, A ^c   Rosset, C ^d   Ferreti, F ^e   Rasinmaki, J ^f   Packalen, T ^g   Gordon, S ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d School of Agricultural Forest and Food Sciences HAFL   (Switzerland)

^e ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^f Simosol Oy ^*  (Finland)

^g FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^h PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Delphi; Forest management; Guidelines; Guidelines definition process; Knowledge management; Lessons learned; Participatory planning; System architecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880959165     PISSN: 21715068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5424/fs/2013222-03033     Document Type: Article

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