Author: Daniel Schmoldt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9401597995
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Decision making in land management involves preferential selection among competing alternatives. Often, such choices are difficult owing to the complexity of the decision context. Because the analytic hierarchy process (AHP, developed by Thomas Saaty in the 1970s) has been successfully applied to many complex planning, resource allocation, and priority setting problems in business, energy, health, marketing, natural resources, and transportation, more applications of the AHP in natural resources and environmental sciences are appearing regularly. This realization has prompted the authors to collect some of the important works in this area and present them as a single volume for managers and scholars. Because land management contains a somewhat unique set of features not found in other AHP application areas, such as site-specific decisions, group participation and collaboration, and incomplete scientific knowledge, this text fills a void in the literature on management science and decision analysis for forest resources.
Author: Marc Hockings
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 2831705460
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This publication proposes a framework for assessing management effectiveness, recognising the need for a variety of responses depending on needs and resources. It aims to help all those who wish to assess protected areas, both in suggesting what needs to be done and in providing some guidelines. It includes six practical case studies from Australia, the Congo Basin, Central America, South America and the USA.
Author: United States. National Park Service
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13:
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