Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques in planning

Massam, Bryan H.

doi:10.1016/0305-9006(88)90012-8

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“…Massam 1988;Kangas et al 2000;Malczewski 2006) was Two groups of criteria were developed using the input variables in Table 1: external criteria, which represent the natural conditions of watersheds in terms of their expected need for water regime regulation; and internal criteria, which represent forest structure and distribution in terms of the expected capacity of forest to regulate the water regime. Such criteria have been developed by rescaling (standardizing) the ranges of input variables, averaged within the watersheds, into the unit range (Table 2) so as to represent either the relative magnitude of forest effect on the water regime or relative magnitude of need for the water regime regulation.…”

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Regional assessment of forest effect on watershed hydrology: Slovakia as a case study

Hlásny¹,

Sitková²,

Barka³

2013

J. For. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Recently, the importance of forest effect on watershed hydrology has been increasingly recognized due to an elevated threat of floods and expected alterations of water regime in watersheds induced by climate change. We assessed the trade-off between natural conditions of 61 basic watersheds in Slovakia and expected water-regulatory capacity of forest in these watersheds. A multi-criteria decision-making scheme was proposed to calculate a coefficient for each watershed indicating the need to regulate its water regime as given by natural conditions, and another coefficient indicating the magnitude of forest water-regulatory capacity given by forest structure and distribution. Factors indicating the forest water-regulatory capacity were extent of forest cover, forest fragmentation and distribution in watersheds relative to the spring area, forest stand density and vertical structure, and tree species composition. The results indicate that the present structure and distribution of forests in Slovakia has potential to moderately regulate the water regime at the scale of basic watersheds. We identified critical watersheds where natural conditions imply the unfavourable water regime and/or the forest water-regulatory capacity is weak. Limits of forest effect on watershed hydrology and caveats for interpreting the presented findings are discussed.

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Section: Data Analysis and Multi-criteria Decision Makingmentioning

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Regional assessment of forest effect on watershed hydrology: Slovakia as a case study

Hlásny¹,

Sitková²,

Barka³

2013

J. For. Sci.

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“…Given a set of alternatives, each characterised by a set of assessments for selected criteria and an interest group whose opinions regarding the selection of criteria and the assessments have to be considered, MCDA provides a systematic procedure identifying the best alternative, the best subset or to rank them (Massam 1988).…”

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ELASTIC – A methodological framework for identifying and selecting sustainable transport indicators

Castillo

Pitfield

2010

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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“…The usual process of MCDM defines objectives, specifies alternatives, transforms the criterion scales into commensurable units, assigns weights to the criteria that reflect their relative importance, selects and applies a mathematical algorithm for ranking alternatives and chooses an alternative (Howard, 1991;Keeney, 1992;Hajkowicz and Prato, 1998;and Massan, 1988).…”

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Integrated water management using feasible goals method and interactive decision maps: the case of Odivelas irrigation

Fragoso

Bushenkov

Marques

2015

IJSSOC

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In Mediterranean areas water scarcity is a real problem and stakeholders have conflicting visions and interests. This paper aims to determine feasible and efficient combinations of stakeholder goals using an integrated water management approach. A framework based on the Feasible Goals Method/Interactive Decision Maps (FGM/IDM) technique to approximate all Pareto optimal solutions of a linear multi-criteria model was developed. The model was applied to the Odivelas irrigated area in southern Portugal and a participative decision making was obtained considering multiple stakeholders goals that are in conflict.

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Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques in planning

Cited by 142 publications

References 39 publications

Regional assessment of forest effect on watershed hydrology: Slovakia as a case study

Regional assessment of forest effect on watershed hydrology: Slovakia as a case study

ELASTIC – A methodological framework for identifying and selecting sustainable transport indicators

Integrated water management using feasible goals method and interactive decision maps: the case of Odivelas irrigation

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