Decision making in urban forestry by using approval voting and multicriteria approval method (case study: Zvezdarska forest, Belgrade, Serbia)

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 114-120

  Lakicevic, Milena ^a   Srdjevic, Zorica ^a   Srdjevic, Bojan ^a   Zlatic, Miodrag ^b  

^a University of Novi Sad   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Approval voting; Multicriteria approval method; Participatory decision making; Urban forestry

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NATURAL RESOURCE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; STAKEHOLDER; URBAN FORESTRY; URBAN POLICY;

BELGRADE; SERBIA;

EID: 84895738116     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2013.11.001     Document Type: Article

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