An Ecological Development Level Evaluation of the Forestry Industry in China Based on a Hybrid Ensemble Approach

Xu, Dayu; Lu, Chunping; Zhang, Xu-Yao

doi:10.3390/f12091288

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“…Li et al (2019) used a technique for ordering preference by similarity to an ideal solution and coordination degree method to measure the sustainability of agriculture [22]. Xu et al (2021) proposed a hybrid ensemble approach combined with principal component analysis, entropy weights, and fuzzy-DEMATEL [60]. Wang et al (2021) used hierarchical analysis and a multi-factor comprehensive evaluation method [61].…”

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Sustainable Agricultural Development Assessment: A Comprehensive Review and Bibliometric Analysis

2022

Sustainability

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This study used a bibliometric analysis of 110 scientific papers published between 2002 and 2022 to overview the publication trends and growth potential of sustainable agricultural development assessment studies. The findings showed that the collaboration between authors and institutions was not strong, the journals published were relatively scattered, the coverage of disciplines was wide, more papers were published in higher impact journals, and the authors of the sample articles were mostly from Asian and European countries, the co-citation analysis pointed out more influential authors and journals. The temporal evolution of the keywords identified that researchers focused more on the sustainable operation of agriculture and the methods to assess the degree of sustainability initially, as research progressed and more scientific methods were applied, recent agricultural sustainability research focused on environmental impacts and economic efficiency. According to statistical analysis, the primary level is mostly carried out in three dimensions (economic, social, and environmental), with reference to this principle, this paper summarized the specific indicators appearing in the sample articles and divided them into three subgroups. The results showed that the indicators were selected from a wide range of sources, the entropy weight method and Analytic Hierarchy Process were the most frequent methods of assigning weights to indicators. The present study concludes that the sustainable agricultural development assessment studies are still immature, there is still much room for research on the application of sustainability assessment theory to agrarian systems.

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Section: Assessment Methodsmentioning

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Sustainable Agricultural Development Assessment: A Comprehensive Review and Bibliometric Analysis

2022

Sustainability

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“…It is especially useful in analyzing the causeand-effect relationships between factors of the system and also to find the critical factors of a system [10]. DEMATEL has received a great deal of attention, and it is a widely used method in various fields, such as engineering [11,12], management sciences [13,14], medicine [15], COVID-19 [16][17][18], energy [19,20], urbanization [21,22], ecology [23,24], and others. It is also one of suitable methods to deal with the degree of importance of evaluation factors and to determine the cause-effect relationships between factors [25].…”

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Solution for Convergence Problem in DEMATEL Method: DEMATEL of Finite Sum of Influences

Šmidovnik

Grošelj

2023

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Decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) is one of the multicriteria decision-making methods based on asymmetric linguistic comparison matrices that has received a great deal of attention, and it is a widely used method in various fields. One of the drawbacks of DEMATEL is a convergence problem that may occur when the infinite sum of normalized influences does not converge. Based on the observations of some examples, the new concept of DEMATEL, the DEMATEL of a finite sum of influences (FSI DEMATEL), is proposed. Instead of an infinite sum, a finite sum of influences is used in FSI DEMATEL so that the convergence problem is avoided. The advantage is that FSI DEMATEL can handle more decision-making problems than the DEMATEL. It can also be used for fuzzy evaluations. FSI DEMATEL can be used as the multicriteria decision-making method to evaluate the relationships between the factors in many different fields.

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“…MEREC was introduced by Keshavarz-Ghorabaee et al in 2021 and is being approved as MEREC is an effective tool for determining objective weights of criteria [12]. Instead of MEREC, the other objective weighting method was usually used in forest-related topics such as entropy [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. There are many new studies that use this new method, and it is being rapidly explored in various fields from 2021 until now.…”

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Development of Ranking for Sustainable Forest Management Criteria in Peninsular Malaysia by using the Method based on the Removal Effects of Criteria

Azman,

Zaibidi,

Nawawi

2023

Preprint

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Peninsular Malaysia has approximately 13.22 million acres of land, with approximately 5.69 million acres forested throughout the state. The forests of peninsular Malaysia will also produce millions of cubic metres of logs, sawn timber, plywood, veneer, and moulding by 2021. Because the forest produces so many resources, it also causes a slew of issues, such as illegal logging and flash floods. SFM takes a holistic approach to ensuring that forest operations provide social, environmental, and economic benefits, that competing needs are balanced, and that forest functioning is preserved and improved today and in the future. The goal of this research is to rank the criteria for three critical dimensions: environmental, economic, and social, that will affect the level of sustainability of forest management in Peninsular Malaysia. This study employs the Method Based on the Removal Effects of Criteria (MEREC) to identify the objective weight and rank all the criteria. The result shows that there are three criteria that have a big impact on all dimensions and another three criteria may not be included since they have no impact on the respective dimensions. With all conclusions, it shows that MEREC is a consistent and reliable method to be considered.

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An Ecological Development Level Evaluation of the Forestry Industry in China Based on a Hybrid Ensemble Approach

Cited by 5 publications

References 48 publications

Sustainable Agricultural Development Assessment: A Comprehensive Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Sustainable Agricultural Development Assessment: A Comprehensive Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Solution for Convergence Problem in DEMATEL Method: DEMATEL of Finite Sum of Influences

Development of Ranking for Sustainable Forest Management Criteria in Peninsular Malaysia by using the Method based on the Removal Effects of Criteria

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