“Reading the Minds” for Quantitative Sustainability: Assessing Stakeholder Mental Models via Probabilistic Text Analysis

Public Administration and Information Technology

Volumn 20, Issue , 2016, Pages 21-38

  Convertino, Matteo ^a,b,c   Munoz Carpena, Rafael ^d   Murcia, Carolina ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d University of Florida   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem Management; Elementary Effect; Network Complexity; Noun Phrase; Semantic Network

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998958928     PISSN: 25121812     EISSN: 25121839     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25439-5_2     Document Type: Chapter

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