Fuzzy multiple attribute evaluation of agricultural systems

Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in Natural Resource Management

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 119-141

  Marks, Leonie A ^a   Dunn, Elizabeth G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b IMPACT LLC   (United States)

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