Ecological land suitability analysis through spatial indicators: An application of the Analytic Network Process technique and Ordered Weighted Average approach

Ferretti, Valentina; Pomarico, Silvia

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.06.005

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“…The final map of priority areas (Figure 3) indicated, as it was discussed, priority areas for forest conservation in specific regions. The class of medium priority represented by 19% and 17% of W1 and W2, respectively, which represents non-generalist spatialization areas, even though it did not use the MCE compensatory methods employed by other authors as Boroushaki & Malczewski (2008;2010), Valente & Vettorazzi (2013), Ferretti & Pomarico (2013), and Silveira et al (2014).…”

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Priority Areas for Forest Conservation, Aiming at the Maintenance of Water Resources, Through the Multicriteria Evaluation1

Silva

Mello²,

Vettorazzi³

et al. 2017

Rev. Árvore

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-Replacing the original land cover by other land uses, especially when it is associated with inadequate management practices, can cause changes in runoff and rainwater infiltration. This can result in above normal levels of soil erosion and sediment-carrying to the rivers and streams. The original land cover conservation in the watersheds is, therefore, essential for the maintenance of its water resources. In this context, the main objective of this study was to prioritize areas for forest conservation in two watersheds, aiming at maintaining the water availability, in terms of quantity and quality, for the public supply. The watersheds were selected considering their regional importance and because they are similar in terms of land use / land cover. The study was developed in the Multicriteria Evaluation (MCE) context, which permits the integration of different landscape characteristics (i.e. factors), in order to obtain a solution for the decision-making process. The following criteria were selected by considering the expert's opinions: slope, flow accumulation, aspect, and land use / land cover. Their relative importance (i.e. factor weight) was defined through the Pairwise Comparison Method. The criteria maps units were normalized by a common scale and then aggregated through an MCE method named Weighted Linear Combination (WLC). Pearson correlation was used to evaluate the criteria contribution on the final map. The watershed 1 was classified in approximately 14% of its area as very high priority; 27% as high; 19% as medium; 21% as low; and 18% as very low. The watershed 2 obtained, respectively, 17%; 29%; 17%; 21%; e 17%. We conclude that the WLC method supports the definition of priority areas for forest conservation in the watersheds, in order to have an appropriate design of actions for forest conservation.Keywords: Weighted Linear Combination; Geographic Information System; Decision-support. AVALIAÇÃO MULTICRITERIAL NA PRIORIZAÇÃO DE ÁREAS À CONSERVAÇÃO FLORESTAL VISANDO À MANUTENÇÃO DE RECURSOS HÍDRICOSRESUMO -A substituição da cobertura original do solo por outros usos, em especial quando se tem práticas inadequadas de manejo, pode causar alterações entre o escoamento superficial e infiltração da água das chuvas. O resultado pode ser o processo de erosão do solo e carreamento de sedimentos aos canais de drenagem em níveis acima do normal. A conservação da cobertura original de uma microbacia é, portanto, essencial à manutenção de seus recursos hídricos. Neste contexto, o principal objetivo do trabalho foi a priorização de áreas à conservação florestal de duas microbacias, visando à manutenção da disponibilidade de água, em quantidade e em qualidade ao abastecimento público. As microbacias foram selecionadas por sua importância regional e por possuírem semelhanças quanto ao uso e cobertura do solo. O estudo realizou-se no contexto da Avaliação Multicriterial (AMC), que permite a integração de diferentes características da paisagem (i.e. 2Revista Árvore. 2017;41(1):e410119Silva VAM et al.fator...

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Priority Areas for Forest Conservation, Aiming at the Maintenance of Water Resources, Through the Multicriteria Evaluation1

Silva

Mello²,

Vettorazzi³

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“…The evaluation method employed in this work for evaluating the feasibility of ecological restoration was the Weighted Linear Combination. The USLE model [21,55,56] and MCDA approach [49,[57][58][59][60][61][62] has been normally used separately for a variety of applications. In this work, they were used as complementary.…”

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Improving Identification of Areas for Ecological Restoration for Conservation by Integrating USLE and MCDA in a GIS-Environment: A Pilot Study in a Priority Region Northern Mexico

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Miranda-Aragón

Pompa-García

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Nature conservation is critical for securing an adequate supplying of environmental services to humans. Paradoxically, financial resources for conservation are normally scarce and, forest ecosystem restoration activities are expensive. So, a careful and detailed planning is vital for optimizing economic funds when ecosystems restoration practices are implemented. In this work, we developed a methodology to find physically-degraded sites in order to determine both, urgency and feasibility to carry out ecological forest restoration activities in the Priority Region for Conservation Xilitla in the state of San Luis Potosí (Mexico). Both, Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) were integrated together by using climatic, soil, remotely-sensed, and proximity data at a 30 m spatial resolution. The results indicated that, more than 80% of the bare soil land in the protected area is under several conditions that lead to feasible ecosystem restoration. This methodology can be further applied to know about the spatial location of soil degraded sites when planning forest restoration practices in natural protected areas.

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“…Based on the above, when there are different plans of multi-objectives, multi-criteria, and multi-behavior decision-making, an ANP provides a highly compatible framework and ranking of the plans for decision-makers to select the best [43][44][45][46][47]. In addition, it can be applied to the analysis of importance of performance indicators of enterprises as the criteria of strategy execution and resource distribution [48][49][50]. Therefore, this study attempts to explore the importance of website design indicators for e-entrepreneurship in relation to the internal environment (the status quo of the company) and the external environment (industrial trend) from the perspective of an ANP.…”

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Evaluation of Interactive Website Design Indicators for e-Entrepreneurship

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Abstract:Using an analytic network process (ANP) as an analytical tool, this study aims to construct an ANP evaluation model of interactive website design indicators. Through a review of the literature, interactive website design of e-entrepreneurship is generalized to the following dimensions: (1) Design; (2) Checking; (3) Service; (4) Interactive; and (5) Promotion, including 19 design indicators. The research is conducted for a case company. According to the findings, the model helps the case company review its current execution of interactive website design indicators and the experts' opinions of the importance of interactive website design indicators. In addition, by comprehensive comparison, it confirms key design indicators and analyzes the managerial implications to help the case company set up precise strategic planning and resource distribution to enhance corporate operational performance and competitiveness.

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Ecological land suitability analysis through spatial indicators: An application of the Analytic Network Process technique and Ordered Weighted Average approach

Cited by 110 publications

References 30 publications

Priority Areas for Forest Conservation, Aiming at the Maintenance of Water Resources, Through the Multicriteria Evaluation1

Priority Areas for Forest Conservation, Aiming at the Maintenance of Water Resources, Through the Multicriteria Evaluation1

Improving Identification of Areas for Ecological Restoration for Conservation by Integrating USLE and MCDA in a GIS-Environment: A Pilot Study in a Priority Region Northern Mexico

Evaluation of Interactive Website Design Indicators for e-Entrepreneurship

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