Developing an ethics-based approach to indicators of sustainable agriculture using analytic hierarchy process (AHP)

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 60, Issue , 2016, Pages 644-654

  Veisi, Hadi ^a   Liaghati, Houman ^a   Alipour, Ali ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZABOL   (Iran)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Ethics; Indicators; Rights; Sustainable agriculture; Utilitarian; Virtue

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ETHICS; RIGHTS; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE; UTILITARIAN; VIRTUE;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ETHICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

IRAN;

EID: 84940212082     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.08.012     Document Type: Article

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