With addressing multicriteria forest management Pareto frontier methods: An application in Portugal

Forest Science

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-72

  Borges, Jose G ^a   Garcia Gonzalo, Jordi ^a   Bushenkov, Vladimir ^b   McDill, Marc E ^c   Marques, Susete ^a   Oliveira, Manuela M ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cork oak; Forest management planning; Multiple criteria decisionmaking; Pareto frontier methods

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

ADAPTIVE SEARCH METHOD; CORK OAK; ESTIMATION REFINEMENTS; FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANNING; INTERACTIVE DECISION MAPS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; PARETO FRONTIERS;

FORESTRY;

COMPUTER PROGRAMING; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; QUERCUS SUBER;

EID: 84893378248     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5849/forsci.12-100     Document Type: Article

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