Identifying objectives and alternative actions to frame a decision problem

Application of Threshold Concepts in Natural Resource Decision Making

Volumn 9781489980410, Issue , 2014, Pages 29-43

  Runge, Michael C ^a   Walshe, Terry ^b  

^a PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Decision threshold; Ecological threshold; Means objectives; Utility threshold

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929930792     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-8041-0_3     Document Type: Chapter

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