We survey and evaluate selected participatory tools that have been proven effective in
natural resources management and research during our extensive experience with forest …

—Decision making is the study of identifying and choosing alternatives based on the values
and preferences of the decision maker. Making a decision implies that there are alternative …

Achieving evidence-based environmental management requires that decision-makers have
access to evidence that can help identify the most effective interventions for their …

With the growing number, complexity, and importance of environmental problems come
demands to include a full range of intellectual disciplines and scholarly traditions to help …

Group decision making is becoming increasingly important in natural resource management
and associated scientific applications, because multiple values are treated coincidentally in …

We discuss the benefits of using multiple criteria decision support (MCDS) methods in forest
management, briefly present some MCDS methods recently applied in forestry, and …

Stakeholder dialogues are proposed as a method for assessing complex ecological and
environmental problems. Stakeholder dialogues aim to enhance mutual learning by …

This paper describes an application of multiple criteria analysis (MCA) in assessing criteria
and indicators adapted for a particular forest management unit. The methods include …

The last 25 years have witnessed growing recognition that natural resource management
decisions depend as much on understanding humans and their social interactions as on …

Understanding human perspectives is critical in a range of conservation contexts, for
example, in overcoming conflicts or developing projects that are acceptable to relevant …