Analysis of multicriteria in the practice of environmental services in areas of watersheds

Canada, Claudete Bezerra dos Santos; Mariottoni, Carlos Alberto

doi:10.1080/10549811.2016.1225511

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“…MCDA was applied in the evaluation of sites/alternatives in 22 articles. In one article, multi-criteria analysis was limited to the use of the Delphi method to assess the importance of criteria (Canada and Mariottoni 2016 ). The most common multi-criteria methods were MAVT/MAUT (10 cases), another generic MCDA method (7 cases), and AHP (4 cases).…”

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“…According to Karjalainen et al ( 2013a ), including negative economic impacts (e.g., losses in hydropower production) in the analysis lowers the risk that economically inefficient and, for some groups, unacceptable alternatives are preferred. MCDA can also be used to highlight issues for which there is agreement and disagreement (McInnes et al 2016 , Canada and Mariottoni 2016 ). These may concern the weights of the criteria, the desirability of the alternatives for the different criteria (estimates may be subjective, e.g., landscape, or there may be different views on the magnitude of the impacts between the alternatives), and the outcome of the analysis (i.e., the ranking and relative desirability of the alternatives).…”

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Complementary use of the Ecosystem Service Concept and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis in Water Management

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Mustajoki

Lehtoranta

et al. 2021

Environmental Management

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The ecosystem service (ES) concept has increasingly been applied in environmental planning, while there are several decades of experience in applying multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in complex planning situations. The aim of this article is to assess how the ES concept has been used in water management projects together with MCDA and to examine the experiences gained and make recommendations to overcome any identified challenges. Our conclusions are based on a systematic analysis of 23 articles that were selected among 206 articles focused on water-related studies using, for example, the terms multi-criteria and ecosystem services in the title, abstract or keywords. Here, we explore (i) at what level of detail ESs are included in the decision hierarchy, (ii) the pros and cons of the complementary use of the two approaches, and (iii) how the potential challenges related to the use of MCDA, such as the large number of criteria, double-counting, or assigning criteria weights, are addressed in the selected cases. The results reveal large differences between the case studies. It is shown that only a few case studies used ES categories to classify criteria in the decision hierarchy, that these cases included different numbers of ES criteria and non-ES criteria, and that most case studies elicited stakeholder preferences in MCDA. Although the paper focuses on water management projects, the conclusions regarding the advantages and pitfalls of the complementary use of the methods, as well as our recommendations, are also applicable to other environmental management contexts.

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Complementary use of the Ecosystem Service Concept and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis in Water Management

Marttunen

Mustajoki

Lehtoranta

et al. 2021

Environmental Management

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“…Likewise, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) report in 2005 identified and assessed 24 various ecosystem services (MEA, 2004). Several conservation schemes such as species banking, biodiversity offsets, watershed protection payments (Canada and Mariottoni, 2016) forest carbon markets, and mitigation banking, particularly REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) comes under payment for ecosystem services (Blanc et al, 2018;McFarland, 2018). Valuation of ecosystem services is recent innovation getting importance and attracting attention of the researchers in developed and developing countries of the world (Bhatta et al, 2014).…”

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Payment for ecosystem services (PES): a holistic tool for sustainable forest management-a case study from Pakistan

Muhammad

Habiba

Raza³

et al. 2023

Braz. J. Biol.

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Economic valuation of ecosystem services is a new concept in forest management. Economic valuation provides basis for payment for ecosystem services (PES). Therefore, objective of this study was to evaluate eco-tourism and carbon stock services of the Maindam valley, District Swat, Pakistan. For the carbon stock calculation, a sample size of 155 plots of 0.1 hectare (Ha) was taken using preliminary survey at 95% confidence interval and 10% allowable error. The data for tourism services was collected from owners of all the hotels, 100 tourists and key informants of the area at 10% sampling intensity on pretested questionnaire for twenty years period (1997-2017). Results showed that Miandam valley has carbon stock worth US$ 16,306,000 while the value of eco-tourism was US$ 1,578,458 on annual basis. The results also showed that trend of tourism has drastically declined after the 9/11 incident for foreigners and locals and the situation was further deteriorated during the era of Talibanization or militancy from 2008-2011. This study recommends implementation of PES strategy at the rate of 5%, thus a total of US$ 78,922 can be earned from eco-tourism and carbon crediting in the study area annually, which could play important role in sustainable forest management.

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El método Delphi aplicado al diseño de un modelo de financiación de transporte urbano

Ureba

Agudo

Menéndez

2019

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El presente trabajo describe la aplicación del método Delphi en el proceso de revisión del modelo de financiación del transporte urbano de viajeros en España. La revisión bibliográfica permite justificar la conveniencia del método Delphi en el diseño de modelos eficientes de financiación en el sector de los servicios públicos y del transporte de viajeros, en particular. Cabe señalar que se trata de entornos caracterizados por la limitación de recursos y la búsqueda de la economía. Es importante que a partir de las opiniones expertas, con una dimensión multidisciplinar, coadyuven a valorar el método Delphi como la mejor opción metodológica.

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Analysis of multicriteria in the practice of environmental services in areas of watersheds

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Complementary use of the Ecosystem Service Concept and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis in Water Management

Complementary use of the Ecosystem Service Concept and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis in Water Management

Payment for ecosystem services (PES): a holistic tool for sustainable forest management-a case study from Pakistan

El método Delphi aplicado al diseño de un modelo de financiación de transporte urbano

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