A multi-criteria inference approach for anti-desertification management

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 162, Issue , 2015, Pages 9-19

  Tervonen, Tommi ^a   Sepehr, Adel ^b   Kadziński, Miłosz ^c  

^a Erasmus University Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^b FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^c POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Classification; Desertification; Environmental Management; Multi criteria analysis; Robust ordinal regression

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; LAND USE;

DESERTIFICATION; INFERENCE METHODS; KHORASAN RAZAVI; MANAGEMENT SUPPORT; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERION; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; REPRESENTATIVE VALUES; ROBUST ORDINAL REGRESSIONS; VALUE FUNCTIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLASSIFICATION; DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; RESILIENCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STAKEHOLDER; VEGETATION INDEX;

ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DESERTIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRAZING; LAND USE; PRECIPITATION; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL PROPERTY; VEGETATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HERBIVORY; IRAN; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

IRAN; RAZAVI KHORASAN;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HERBIVORY; IRAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84937681024     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.07.006     Document Type: Article

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