Bringing ecosystem services indicators into spatial planning practice: Lessons from collaborative development of a web-based visualization platform

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 61, Issue , 2016, Pages 90-99

  Wissen Hayek, U ^a   Teich, M ^b   Klein, T M ^a   Gret Regamey A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment criteria; Co production of spatial decision support systems; Ecosystem service indicators; Process design; Transdisciplinary research; Web based visualization platform

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; PROCESS DESIGN; PRODUCT DESIGN; SCHEDULING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VISUALIZATION; WEB DESIGN; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA; COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; OBSERVATION PROTOCOL; PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION PLATFORMS; WEB-BASED VISUALIZATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DESIGN METHOD; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; PLANNING PRACTICE; RESEARCH METHOD; SPATIAL PLANNING; VISUALIZATION;

SWITZERLAND; ZURICH [SWITZERLAND];

EID: 84928191997     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.03.035     Document Type: Article

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