The role of knowledge management tools in supporting sustainable forest management

Forest Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 442-455

  Vacik, H ^a   Torresan, C ^b   Hujala, T ^c   Khadka, C ^a   Reynolds, K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Best practices; Cognitive mapping; Decision support systems; Expert systems; Intelligent agents; Web portals; Workflow systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889683277     PISSN: 21715068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5424/fs/2013223-02954     Document Type: Article

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