Opportunities and Strategies to Incorporate Ecosystem Services Knowledge and Decision Support Tools into Planning and Decision Making in Hawai‘i

Environmental Management

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 884-899

  Bremer, Leah L ^a,b   Delevaux, Jade M S ^a   Leary, James J K ^a   J Cox, Linda ^a   Oleson, Kirsten L L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Stanford University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Decision support tool; Ecosystem services; Hawai i; Integrated management; Modeling

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINES; CONSERVATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; MANAGERS; MODELS; NATURAL RESOURCES; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS; MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE; SUSTAINABLE DECISION MAKINGS;

DECISION MAKING;

AGRICULTURE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; COMMUNICATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HAWAII; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84939959001     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0426-4     Document Type: Article

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