Voting approaches can successfully be applied to participatory planning of forestry

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Has statement	Voting approaches can successfully be applied to participatory planning of forestry
Has evidence	(See review article)
Has consequences	Ability to deal with ordinal preferences of decision makers and ordinal evaluation data on alternatives, comprehensive and easy to interpret, making the decision support process transparent and quick to implement even with large groups of people.
Has recommendation for action	The implementation of the DSS needs to take into account the ability of participants to understand the DSS and its output.
Has domain	User interface and outputs
Has DSS development stage	Use
Has decision stage
Has temporal scale	Long term (strategic), Medium term (tactical), Short term (operational)
Has spatial context	Non spatial, Spatial with neighbourhood interrelations, Spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale	Forest level, Regional/national level, Stand level
Has objectives dimension	Multiple objectives
Has goods and services dimension	Market non-wood products, Market services, Market wood products, Non-market services
Has decision making dimension	More than one decision maker/stakeholder
Has country	Finland
Has reference	Kangas, A., Laukkanen, S., Kangas, J., 2006. Social choice theory and its applications in sustainable forest management—a review. Forest Policy and Economics 9, 77– 92.
Has related DSS
Has related case
Has related lesson
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Has working group theme
Has DSS development
Has decision support techniques
Has knowledge management processes
Has support for social participation
Has actor perspective	Researcher
Has researcher role	Decision analyst
Has user role
Has developer role