Land quality index assessment for agricultural purpose using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA)

Kumar, Tarun; Jhariya, D. C.

doi:10.1080/10106049.2014.997304

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“…In this group, one can find mostly the methods from the European MCDA school, such as ELECTRE [25,93], PROMETHEE [78] or reference point technique [79]. The second group, based mostly on the American MCDA school, contains research where composite indicators (CIs) are computed, with absolute values which can later be used for rankings generation [88,90] or be put on a map to perform a spatial analysis [85,94]. The MCDA application for composite index creation is further described in Section 4.…”

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“…A comprehensive sensitivity analysis was performed [103]. Kumar et al [94] and Al-Shalabi et al [85] used AHP along with GIS to put sustainability index values on maps. Similarly, Boggia and Cortina used SWING and GIS to classify and map different Italian Region areas based on environmental and socioeconomic performance indices [108].…”

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An Index to Measure the Sustainable Information Society: The Polish Households Case

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Since the 1960s, a turning point for civilization related to the increasing role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in creating the modern society can be observed. The sustainable information society (SIS) entails a new phase of information society development, in which the ICT adoption by the society stakeholders is the key enabler of sustainability. One of the most important issues in the debate about the SIS is the means to measure it. In this paper, a methodological framework for creating SIS evaluation indexes is presented. In practical terms, an exemplary adjustable index for evaluating SIS in households is created based on the presented approach. During the empirical research, the presented index is used to evaluate SIS in Polish households. The study showed the usefulness of the proposed approach and confirmed the fact that it can be used to build other SIS indices.

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“…In the study area, slopes ranging from 0-3% to > 40% exist; however, the dominant slope range is >3-40%. Generally, agriculture is recommended more in flat areas in order to minimize soil erosion, and the soil is considered to have good quality (Kumar and Jhariya, 2015). Cultivation on steep slopes is not recommended for reasons of sustainability (Malley et al, 2006).…”

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“…Such a multi-criteria method has been widely used in agriculture to assess the suitability of agricultural commodities singly, such as for coffee planting (Mighty, 2015), tobacco (Chen et al, 2010;Zhang et al, 2015), wheat (Mendas and Delali 2012;Sarkar et al, 2014), tea (Foshtomi et al, 2011;Li et al, 2012) and others. This type of assessment may also be done for agricultural use more generally without reference to a particular commodity, such as for example, the assessments done by Bandyopadhyay et al (2009), Akinci et al (2013), Zolekar and Bhagat (2015) and Kumar and Jhariya (2015). In addition to agriculture, this method has also been widely used, such as in disaster mitigation analysis (Feizizadeh et al, 2014;Dragicevic et al, 2015).…”

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Integrated use of GIS, AHP and remote sensing in land use planning for tropical high altitude vegetable crops

Widiatmaka¹

2016

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In Indonesia, Java Island still contributes a large amount of the total number of vegetables produced. In this tropical country, vegetables are produced in two different agro-ecological conditions, which are high altitude and low altitude. The rapidly increasing population growth has caused the centre's production of high altitude vegetables on Java Island to be increasingly pressured by other types of land utilization. This study was conducted in one of the production centres of tropical high altitude vegetable crops in the upper slope area of Mts Gede-Pangrango, West Java, covering an area of 78,290 ha. The research objective was to delineate the suitable land that is available for high altitude vegetables crops. In the first step, land suitability was analysed using multi-criteria decision-making methodology. The criteria used include those grouped within the parameters of land, topography, climate and ease of management; criterion consists of sub-criteria. The criteria were weighted using the Analytical Hierarchy Process, while sub-criteria were scored according to their contributions to land suitability. The weights of the criteria and scores of the sub-criteria were used for delineating land suitability in a geographic information system model. In the second step, the land availability was analysed by taking into account the constraints of forest area status designation and the spatial pattern of official land use plan map. Results of both analyses were used to delineate suitable and available land for tropical high altitude vegetables crops. The results showed that the amount of land that was suitable and available for tropical high altitude vegetables crops was 23.7% of the analysed area. The area of suitable and available land that is actually not used yet is 9% of the area analysed, which could be recommended for the expansion of vegetable crops. Land that is suitable and available, either land that is already used or land that is not yet used, could be designated as priority lands to be protected from the pressure of non-agricultural land utilization in order to maintain the sustainability of vegetable availability.

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“…The integration of GIS and MCA techniques provides efficient spatial analysis functions (Yu et al 2009). In recent times, GIS-based MCA technique has gained importance because of its capacity to integrate a large quantity of data (Chen et al 2010;Feizizadeh et al 2012;Kumar and Jhariya 2015).…”

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Application of remote sensing, GIS and MCA techniques for delineating groundwater prospect zones in Kashipur block, Purulia district, West Bengal

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Kundu

2018

Appl Water Sci

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Demand of groundwater resources has increased manifold with population expansion as well as with the advent of modern civilization. Assessment, planning and management of groundwater resource are becoming crucial and extremely urgent in recent time. The study area belongs to Kashipur block, Purulia district, West Bengal. The area is characterized with dry climate and hard rock terrain. The objective of this study is to delineate groundwater potential zone for the assessment of groundwater availability using remote sensing, GIS and MCA techniques. Different thematic layers such as hydrogeomorphology, slope and lineament density maps have been transformed to raster data in TNT mips pro2012. To assign weights and ranks to different input factor maps, multi-influencing factor (MIF) technique has been used. The weights assigned to each factor have been computed statistically. Weighted index overlay modeling technique was used to develop a groundwater potential zone map with three weighted and scored parameters. Finally, the study area has been categorized into four distinct groundwater potential zones-excellent 1.5% (6.45 sq. km), good 53% (227.9 sq. km), moderate 45% (193.5 sq. km.) and poor ~ 0.5% (2.15 sq. km). The outcome of the present study will help local authorities, researchers, decision makers and planners in formulating proper planning and management of groundwater resources in different hydrogeological situations.

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Land quality index assessment for agricultural purpose using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA)

Cited by 39 publications

References 20 publications

An Index to Measure the Sustainable Information Society: The Polish Households Case

An Index to Measure the Sustainable Information Society: The Polish Households Case

Integrated use of GIS, AHP and remote sensing in land use planning for tropical high altitude vegetable crops

Application of remote sensing, GIS and MCA techniques for delineating groundwater prospect zones in Kashipur block, Purulia district, West Bengal

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