Priority areas for forest restoration aiming at the conservation of water resources

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 94, Issue , 2016, Pages 255-267

  Vettorazzi, Carlos Alberto ^a   Valente, Roberta Averna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Decision making; Landscape restoration; Multicriteria evaluation; OWA method

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; EROSION; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND RECLAMATION; LAND USE; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; RESTORATION; RISK MANAGEMENT; RIVERS; SOILS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE WATERS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATERSHEDS;

DECISION MAKING PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTIC; LANDSCAPE RESTORATION; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING; OWA METHOD; WEIGHTED LINEAR COMBINATIONS;

WATER RESOURCES;

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PRIORITIZATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIVER BASIN; ROAD TRANSPORT; SOIL EROSION; SURFACE WATER; TRADE-OFF; WATER RESOURCE;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL; CORUMBATAI BASIN; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL];

EID: 84973352770     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.05.069     Document Type: Article

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