Incorporating community objectives in improved wetland management: the use of the analytic hierarchy process

Herath, Gamini

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2003.12.011

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“…Pavlikakis and Tsihrintzis (2003) compare three MCDM techniques from the Ecosystem Management approach: MAUT, Compromise Programming and AHP to integrate stakeholders' preferences on four alternative management plans of a Greek National Park included in the Ramsar category. Herath (2004) and Hajkowicz (2008) also include the preferences of local communities in the management of wetlands in Australia using AHP and Direct Rating respectively.…”

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A critical review of multi-criteria decision making in protected areas

Castro-Pardo

Urios

2016

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ABSTRACT:Multi-criteria analysis in collaborative decision making can provide a useful tool to improve the governance in protected areas with strong conflicts between stakeholders. This paper offers an in-depth review about MCDM methods in protected areas. The analysis considers the topics Land Use, Management, Species, and Zoning and it is based in two dimensions: Methods and Participation. Topics and MCDM methods and Topics and Participation were significantly related and contrasted using a Chisquared test, respectively. We have identified two groups by topics: Zoning and Species use continuous non participative methods and Land Use and Management use discrete methods with increasing participation. KEYWORDS:Collaborative Decision-Making, Multi-criteria analysis, protected areas. Una revisión crítica de la toma de decisiones multi-criterio en áreas protegidas RESUMEN:El análisis multi-criterio para toma de decisiones colaborativa ofrece una herramienta útil para mejorar la gobernanza en áreas protegidas, con fuertes conflictos de intereses entre agentes. Este artículo ofrece una revisión en profundidad sobre métodos MCDM en áreas protegidas. El análisis considera los temas Uso de la tierra, Gestión, Especies y Zonificación, y se basa en dos dimensiones: Mé-todos y Participación. Los Temas y las Técnicas MCDM y los Temas y la Participación están significativamente correlacionados respectivamente según un test Chi-cuadrado. Hemos identificado dos grupos: Especies y Zonificación usan métodos continuos no participativos y Uso de la tierra y Gestión, utilizan métodos discretos donde la participación es creciente. PALABRAS CLAVE:Análisis multi-criterio, áreas protegidas, toma de decisiones colaborativa.

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A critical review of multi-criteria decision making in protected areas

Castro-Pardo

Urios

2016

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“…Like other wetlands (Alho and Vieira 1997;Herath 2004), Deepor Beel supplies a diverse group of goods and services to the local community and animal population. The whole wetland (40.14 km 2 ) was declared as a Ramsar site in 2002 (Ramsar 2008b) and 4.14 km 2 within the Ramsar site was proposed as a wildlife sanctuary (Government of Assam 1989a).…”

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Railroad impacts on wetland habitat: GIS and modeling approach

Mitra

Bezbaruah

2014

JTLU

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Deepor Beel is one of the most important wetlands in the Brahmaputra Valley of lower Assam in India and is representative of the wetlands found within the Burma Monsoon Forest biogeography region. Deepor Beel is a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention and is contiguous with Rani and Garbhanga reserved forests. These forests house endangered Asiatic elephants (Elephas maximus) in addition to other birds and animals. The elephants depend on the wetland for water and food. Indian Railways constructed Assam state's southern railroad through the wetland in 2001. The railroad has fragmented the wetland into at least two subsystems and has segregated the wetland-forest ecosystem. Accelerated degradation of elephant habitat has been observed in the wetland since the railroad was constructed. Further, a number of elephants have died because of collisions with rail traffic. This study quantifies the impacts of the present railroad on the Deepor Beel ecosystem with special reference to Asiatic elephants. Geographic information systems (GIS) and mathematical models are used in impact quantification. The tools developed in this study can be used in analyses of similar ecosystems around the world.

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“…As the concept of C&I has emerged in an increasing number of initiatives at global, national and forest management unit level, it has been applied in community forest management in Nepal as well (Khadka & Vacik 2012). However, a number of applications evaluating forest planning and management approaches with MCA techniques describe limits in the practical implementation (Mendoza & Prabhu 2000, Herath 2004, Wolfslehner et al 2005. From this study it became evident that appropriate management requires: (i) harmonizing and integrating different datasets; (ii) selecting the right indicators; (iii) fitting the right concept to the right scale; and (iv) integrating data, indicators and concepts into systems that allow both a high level of participation and flexibility in application to different questions (Fürst et al 2010).…”

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Use of multi-criteria analysis (MCA) for supporting community forest management

Khadka¹,

Vacik²

2012

iForest

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© iForest -Biogeosciences and Forestry Introduction Approaches in community forestry managementCommunity forestry has shifted from traditional participatory, to participatory and collaborative management approaches that integrate local and scientific knowledge (e.g., Walters 1986, Maser 1996, Schreiber et al. 2004. The involvement of stakeholders to manage the forests as community forestry has become a widely accepted participatory management philosophy, along with the sustainability concept. In this regard, the concept of sustainability has become a dominant paradigm for the management of the remaining global forests, particularly tropical forests (Khadka & Vacik 2012). The concept of criteria and indicators (C&I) has produced an increasing number of initiatives, which has contributed to the promotion and achievement of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM), such as monitoring, reporting and management instruments at a global, national and community management level. In its early phase, the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) began to develop C&I sets (ITTO 1992(ITTO , 1993 and as yet, nine eco-regional forestry processes have been established (Wijewardana 2008), involving 149 countries, whose combined forest area equals 97.5 percent of the world's total forest area. Among others, the Pan-European and the Montreal processes for temperate and boreal forests, dry zone Africa process for arid zones forests, the African Timber Organization (ATO) Process; the near east process and the regional initiatives for dry forests in Asia process.The traditional meaning of sustainability in terms of sustained yield was radically expanded (Glück 1995). Sustainable forest management is defined as "stewardship and use of forests and forest land in a way, and at a rate, that maintains their biodiversity, productivity, generation capacity, vitality, and their potential to fulfill now and in the future, relevant ecological, economic, and social functions at local, national, and global levels […]" (MCPFE 1993). However, there exists a wide variety of planning and management approaches which comprise different schools of thought and allow different impacts. Therefore, in community forest management the practical implementation of the planning approaches is often highly debated and a promising approach is hardly identified. In a traditional participatory planning and management approach, goals are set and one management strategy is selected as the optimal one (Linkov et al. 2006). It has been often criticized that in such a setting process information sharing is restricted, stereotypes are reinforced, and that a limited public involvement in the plan development, as well as win-lose solutions, are generally promoted (Friedmann 1973, Susskind & Cruiskshank 1987, Blahna & Yonts'-Shepard 1989, Maser 1996, Wondolleck & Yaffee 2000. Walters (1986) introduced the concept of an evolutionary ("trial and error") approach, which is closely linked to the traditional participatory approach, but starts with a haphazard set of choices ...

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Incorporating community objectives in improved wetland management: the use of the analytic hierarchy process

Cited by 140 publications

References 19 publications

A critical review of multi-criteria decision making in protected areas

A critical review of multi-criteria decision making in protected areas

Railroad impacts on wetland habitat: GIS and modeling approach

Use of multi-criteria analysis (MCA) for supporting community forest management

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