A new multicriteria risk mapping approach based on a multiattribute frontier concept

Risk Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1694-1709

  Yemshanov, Denys ^a   Koch, Frank H ^b,d   Ben Haim, Yakov ^c   Downing, Marla ^d   Sapio, Frank ^d   Siltanen, Marty ^a  

^a GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrilus biguttatus; Multiattribute efficient frontier; Multicriteria aggregation; Nondominant set; Pest risk mapping; Robustness to uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AGRILUS; EFFICIENT FRONTIER; MULTI-CRITERIA; NONDOMINANT SET; RISK MAPPINGS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MAPS; RISK PERCEPTION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INVASIVE SPECIES; MAPPING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PEST CONTROL; PEST OUTBREAK; PEST SPECIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

AGRILUS BIGUTTATUS;

AGRILUS BIGUTTATUS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; METHODOLOGY; MULTIATTRIBUTE EFFICIENT FRONTIER; MULTICRITERIA AGGREGATION; NONDOMINANT SET; PEST RISK MAPPING; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBUSTNESS TO UNCERTAINTY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

AGRILUS BIGUTTATUS; MULTIATTRIBUTE EFFICIENT FRONTIER; MULTICRITERIA AGGREGATION; NONDOMINANT SET; PEST RISK MAPPING; ROBUSTNESS TO UNCERTAINTY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEETLES; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREES; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884211038     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/risa.12013     Document Type: Article

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