Comparing group deliberation to other forms of preference aggregation in valuing ecosystem services

Ecology and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Murphy, Mackenzie B ^a   Mavrommati, Georgia ^b   Mallampalli, Varun Rao ^c   Howarth, Richard B ^a   Borsuk, Mark E ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deliberative multicriteria evaluation; Participatory methods; Shared values; Trade off weights; Value formation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERCEPTION; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 85040643699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/7.ES-09519-220417     Document Type: Article

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