Efficient Group Decision Making in Workshop Settings

Schmoldt, Daniel L.; Peterson, David L.

doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9799-9_7

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“…The MAUT‐based applications appear to be used in stakeholder value elicitation for regional forest planning (Ananda and Herath 2003), air quality valuation (Kwak et al 2001), and agricultural applications (Gomez‐Limon et al 2003). In addition, Schmoldt and Peterson (2001a) advocated the use of AHP as a decision support tool in workshop settings for forest resource management.…”

Section: Mcda Applications For Environmental Management and Related Usesmentioning

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Application of multicriteria decision analysis in environmental decision making

Kiker

Bridges

Varghese

et al. 2005

Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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Decision making in environmental projects can be complex and seemingly intractable, principally because of the inherent trade-offs between sociopolitical, environmental, ecological, and economic factors. The selection of appropriate remedial and abatement strategies for contaminated sites, land use planning, and regulatory processes often involves multiple additional criteria such as the distribution of costs and benefits, environmental impacts for different populations, safety, ecological risk, or human values. Some of these criteria cannot be easily condensed into a monetary value, partly because environmental concerns often involve ethical and moral principles that may not be related to any economic use or value. Furthermore, even if it were possible to aggregate multiple criteria rankings into a common unit, this approach would not always be desirable because the ability to track conflicting stakeholder preferences may be lost in the process. Consequently, selecting from among many different alternatives often involves making trade-offs that fail to satisfy 1 or more stakeholder groups. Nevertheless, considerable research in the area of multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) has made available practical methods for applying scientific decision theoretical approaches to complex multicriteria problems. This paper presents a review of the available literature and provides recommendations for applying MCDA techniques in environmental projects. A generalized framework for decision analysis is proposed to highlight the fundamental ingredients for more structured and tractable environmental decision making.

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Section: Mcda Applications For Environmental Management and Related Usesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of multicriteria decision analysis in environmental decision making

Kiker

Bridges

Varghese

et al. 2005

Integr Envir Assess & Manag

774

435

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“…Although the AHP theory was first developed in the late 1970s and has been used as a decision support tool in various fields, few studies have applied it in the fields of forestry, agriculture, and natural resources [48]. Some examples of such applications include the decision making for forest planning [39,40,49,50]; selection of risk factors for forest protection [51][52][53][54]; forest management [55][56][57][58][59][60][61]; and suitability analysis of land use [45,[62][63][64][65][66]. However, previous studies have not pointed and compared the influence levels of criteria on biodiversity conservation.…”

Section: Literature Review: Determining Priority Areas For Biodiversi...mentioning

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Criteria and Indicators to Define Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam

Csaplovics

Marrs

et al. 2022

Forests

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Balancing biodiversity conservation with land use for agricultural production is a major societal challenge. Conservation activities must be prioritized since funds and resources for conservation are insufficient in the context of current threats, and conservation competes with other societal priorities. In order to contribute to conservation priority-setting literature, we applied an environmental model, Pressure–State–Response (PSR), to develop a set of criteria for identifying priority areas for biodiversity conservation in Vietnam. Our empirical data have been compiled from 185 respondents and categorized into three groups: Governmental Administration and Organizations, Universities and Research Institutions, and Protected Areas. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) theory was used to identify the weight of all criteria. Our results show that the priority levels for biodiversity conservation identified by these three factors are 41% for “Pressure”, 26% for “State”, and 33% for “Response”. Based on these three factors, seven criteria and seventeen indicators were developed to determine priority areas for biodiversity conservation. Besides, our study also reveals that the groups of Governmental Administration and organizations and Protected Areas put a focus on the “Pressure” factor, while the group of Universities and Research Institutions emphasized the importance of the “Response” factor in the evaluation process. We suggest that these criteria and indicators be used to identify priority areas for biodiversity conservation in Vietnam.

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“…The underlying concept of the AHP technique is to convert subjective assessments of relative importance to a set of overall scores or weights (Saaty, 1980). The AHP, based on three principles as defined by Saaty, is an eigenvalue approach to the pair‐wise comparison (Schmoldt, 2001). These principles are decomposition, evaluation and synthesis.…”

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Assessment of sea‐level rise adaptation options

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Purpose -The Gold Coast is a low-lying coastal Australian city and many residential areas are subject to 1:100 year flood events. Evidently, there is a need for the city to adapt to sea-level rise (SLR) by developing more effective policies to reduce its destructive impacts. Thus, the purpose is to identify and evaluate preferred adaptation alternatives to reduce the vulnerability to SLR and storm surges. Design/methodology/approach -In this research, we explore stakeholders' opinions for adaptation alternatives to adapt to the impacts of SLR. As part of exploring alternatives to improve Gold Coast's resilience to climate change effects we are undertake a multi-criteria analysis by using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). The goal, criteria and adaptation alternatives were derived, and based upon, adaptation programmes, existing adaptation works by local governments and an extensive literature review. The final AHP structure was developed after further consultations with three local stakeholders (politicians, experts and residents). Findings -The results show that across the three stakeholder groups, effectiveness and sustainability are the criteria of highest priority, respectively. When considering adaptation alternatives, the highest priority for politicians and residents is improving building design whilst for experts improving public awareness is of most importance. Originality/value -We demonstrated that utilising the AHP method in the aforementioned context for the Gold Coast region could provide a straightforward approach to evaluate the adaptation alternatives from multi-stakeholders' perspectives. Advantages are its versatility in application to coastal processes and its inclusion of the multiple stakeholder in the decision-making process.

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Efficient Group Decision Making in Workshop Settings

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Application of multicriteria decision analysis in environmental decision making

Application of multicriteria decision analysis in environmental decision making

Criteria and Indicators to Define Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam

Assessment of sea‐level rise adaptation options

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