Optimal land use management for soil erosion control by using an interval-parameter fuzzy two-stage stochastic programming approach

Environmental Management

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 621-638

  Han, Jing Cheng ^a   Huang, Guo He ^a   Zhang, Hua ^b   Li, Zhong ^c  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fuzzy sets; Land use transformation; Net benefit; Penalty; Three Gorges Reservoir; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

INHERENT SYSTEM UNCERTAINTY; LAND-USE CHANGE DYNAMICS; NET BENEFIT; PENALTY; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR REGION; TWO-STAGE STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION MAKING; EROSION; FUZZY SETS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS;

LAND USE;

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; LINEAR PROGRAMING; OPTIMIZATION; SOIL EROSION; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CHINA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; INTERVAL PARAMETER FUZZY TWO STAGE STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING APPROACH; LAND USE; POLICY; PROBABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RIVER; SOIL EROSION; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED;

CHINA; HUBEI; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR; XIANGXI RIVER;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FUZZY LOGIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOIL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84883461480     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0122-9     Document Type: Article

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