Development of an Integrated Spatial Decision Support System (ISDSS) for local government in New Zealand

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2370-2376

  Huser, B ^a   Rutledge, D T ^g   van Delden, H ⁱ   Wedderburn, M E ^h   Cameron, M ^b   Elliott, S ^c   Fenton, T ^d   Hurkens, J ⁱ   McBride, G ^c   McDonald, G ^e   O'Connor, M ^f   Phyn, D ^a   Poot, J ^b   Price, R ^g   Small, B ^h   Tait, A ^c   Vanhout, R ⁱ   Woods, R A ^c  

^a Environment Waikato   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d Alchemists Ltd   (New Zealand)

^e and Market Economics Ltd ^*  (New Zealand)

^f LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^g LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^h RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

ⁱ Research Institute for Knowledge Systems   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision Support System (DSS); Local government; Regional planning; Scenarios

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE MODELS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; LAND USE; PUBLIC POLICY; WATER QUALITY;

INFORMED DECISION; INTEGRATED MODELING; INTEGRATED SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE SYSTEMS; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; SYSTEMS MODELING; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 85105688220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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