The application of a simple spatial multi-criteria analysis shell to natural resource management decision making

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn 0, Issue 9783540691679, 2008, Pages 73-95

  Lesslie, Robert G ^a   Hill, Michael J ^b   Hill, Patricia ^c   Cresswell, Hamish P ^c   Dawson, Steve ^a  

^a BUREAU OF RURAL SCIENCES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVEGETATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ECONOMIC INFORMATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY PROCESS; RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS; SPATIAL DATA MANAGEMENT; SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84979923463     PISSN: 18632246     EISSN: 18632351     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69168-6_5     Document Type: Article

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