Making Transparent Environmental Management Decisions Applications of the Ecosystem Management Decision Support System

Since 1997, the Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system has been used around the world to support environmental analysis and planning in many different application areas, and it has been applied over a wide range of geographic scales, from forest stands to entire countries. An extensive...

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Other Authors: Reynolds, Keith M. (Editor), Hessburg, Paul F. (Editor), Bourgeron, Patrick S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
Series:Environmental Science
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Since 1997, the Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system has been used around the world to support environmental analysis and planning in many different application areas, and it has been applied over a wide range of geographic scales, from forest stands to entire countries. An extensive sampling of this diversity of applications is presented in section 2, in which EMDS application developers describe the varied uses of the system. These accounts, together with the requisite background in section 1, provide valuable practical insights into how the system can be applied in the general domain of environmental management
Physical Description:XIX, 337 p. 69 illus., 49 illus. in color online resource
ISBN:9783642320002