Multicriteria Decision Aid to support Multilateral Environmental Agreements in assessing international forestry projects

Abstract

The three Rio Conventions-the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification-face the challenge to create synergies at different levels. The objective of this article is to describe how we have assessed synergies between the Rio Conventions at the project level in the forest sector. Since the complexity of the decision problem is high, we adopted the Multicriteria Decision Aid approach, which can provide a broad insight into the decision problem and find a compromise solution to a problem with multidimensional and conflicting criteria including social, economic and environmental features. The ELECTRE TRI model was used for assessing synergies at the project level, and has been a useful tool to quantify the performance of afforestation and reforestation projects into three categories (synergistic, reasonably synergistic, and not synergistic). For the first time, afforestation and reforestation projects have been assessed in a comprehensive way through decision criteria that reflect global and local interests using a non-compensatory multicriteria method.

A Novel Approach for Systematic Literature Reviews Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

“…In addition, the methods were considered in relation to their family of methods, when applicable. The methods of the ELECTRE Family are the most frequent, present in 29 articles [6,53,59,61,65,67,68,74,80,82,84,88,90,98,99,101,102,108,111,116,117,126,128]. Next, the AHP method appears, with 21 occurrences [6, 49-52, 55, 62, 64, 66, 67, 71, 77, 84, 90, 106, 121, 123, 127, 129, 134, 135].…”

A Review: Clearing Oil Palm Plantation with Multi-Stakeholder Model

“…Multi-criteria decision model to support multilateral environmental agreements and assessment issues of land conservation and plantation forestry was used [15]. ELECTRE methods are used to maintain a model of environmental sustainability in order to maintain continuity of forest.…”

“…AHP method was implemented in [14], [16], [21], [23], [24]. The research that used ELECTRE method has been done [15], [18], [25]. The use of fuzzy method was developed [16] used Fuzzy AHP, [17] used Fuzzy Random, [19] used Fuzzy Optimization, [22] used Fuzzy MultiMOORA and [25] used FIS.…”