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The Sierra Nevada Example: Elicitation and Analysis of Preferences

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The survey of the workshop participants described in Chapter 8 offered a broad overview of the multiple stakeholder perspectives regarding the management of the national forests in the Sierra Nevada region. Even among groups that seem superficially homogeneous, such as individuals who work for the Forest Service, we found a diversity of opinions about how best to manage the forests.

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Balint, P.J., Stewart, R.E., Desai, A., Walters, L.C. (2011). The Sierra Nevada Example: Elicitation and Analysis of Preferences. In: Wicked Environmental Problems. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-047-7_9

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