Multicriteria Group Decision-making Model for Environmental Conflict Analysis in the Cape Region, Mexico

Malczewski, Jacek; Moreno-Sánchez, Rafael; Bojórquez‐Tapia, Luis A.; Ongay-Delhumeau, Enrique

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“…Many studies have addressed GIS applications for marine aquaculture on site selection or spatial decision support. For instance, GIS has been adopted in marine aquaculture planning, and in various marine applications including sediment dynamics and bathymetry changes, artificial reef site selection, and coastal hazards [21][22][23][24]. Hence, GIS mapping involves detailed information, which requires a good data set of environmental indicators to determine the impact distance and risk assessment guidelines.…”

Section: Geographic Information System Applicationmentioning

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Integrated GIS and AHP for Marine Aquaculture Site Selection in Penghu Cove in Taiwan

Shih¹

2017

J Coast Zone Manag

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Journal of Coastal Zone Management AbstractMarine cage culture has been developed quickly in recent years from land-based operation transfer to marine cage culture by government policy in Taiwan. Therefore, the suitable site selection is an important premised and key factor for successful marine cage culture and sustainable development in the future. Especially, it's greatly influences economic viability by determining capital outlay and affecting running costs, production and mortality. Hence, the decision factors such as climate factors, geographic environmental factors, bio-environmental factors and social-economic factors are more important for site selection. This study use AHP (analytic hierarchy process) to evaluate the criteria weight for site selection. From AHP analysis, the weights of suitability of the four Geographic Information System (GIS) grid themes were 0.322, 0.410, 0.127 and 0.141, respectively. The result shows that the geographic environmental factors are the most important factors in selection suitable marine culture sits in Penghu cove in Taiwan. At the meanwhile, by using ArcMap, a GIS software package, a suitable map was made based on the selected grid themes. The suitable sites for marine cage culture development identified on the individual GIS grid themes, the GIS software and AHP method can be integrated to select objectively the optimal sites for marine cage culture development.

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Section: Geographic Information System Applicationmentioning

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Integrated GIS and AHP for Marine Aquaculture Site Selection in Penghu Cove in Taiwan

Shih¹

2017

J Coast Zone Manag

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“…[17] developed a model to deal with a multicriteria group decision-making problem involving a set of feasible landuse options. The AHP was integrated with integer mathematical programming.…”

Section: Table 2 Application Of Ahp In Relevant Studiesmentioning

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“…Author/s and Country Application Area [8], USA Evaluation of strategies for the safe disposal of high-level nuclear waste [9], USA Fisheries management in Maryland"s river herring fishery [10], Finland Integration of biodiversity into forest management planning and decisionmaking [11], Finland Participative forest management planning of a nature conservation area [13], Canada Determining relative importance of risk factors for spruce beetle outbreaks [12], Finland Analyzing uncertainties in experts" opinions of forest plan performance [14], Spain Timber harvest scheduling problems with multiple criteria [15], Thailand Optimal crop planning for a groundwater irrigation project [17], Mexico Multicriteria group decision-making for environmental conflict analysis [18], Australia Ranking issues, projects and sites in integrated catchment management [19], Australia Pest plant prioritization process in weed management [8] Used AHP in comparing options for management of high-level nuclear waste, a complex decision problem involving many factors of a technological, environmental, social and political nature. They argued that there are many alternatives being proposed for the disposal of waste but, because of the lack of data, it is not an easy task to find the best alternative.…”

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An Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Measuring Sustainable Development in an Organization Implementing a Community Development Program

Sumbung¹,

Suman²,

Hidayat³

et al. 2014

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“…In this context the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a robust, ratio-scaled MCA method for analyzing complex decisions with multiple attributes (Saaty 1977). The AHP has been applied to elicit public preferences in a vast range of natural resource policy areas, including forest management (Schmoldt et al 2001, Mardle et al 2004, and was applied in multi-objective forest management for structuring and solving complex decision problems (Malczewski et al 1997, Kangas 1999, Vacik & Lexer 2001.…”

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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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Multicriteria Group Decision-making Model for Environmental Conflict Analysis in the Cape Region, Mexico

Cited by 74 publications

References 22 publications

Integrated GIS and AHP for Marine Aquaculture Site Selection in Penghu Cove in Taiwan

Integrated GIS and AHP for Marine Aquaculture Site Selection in Penghu Cove in Taiwan

An Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Measuring Sustainable Development in an Organization Implementing a Community Development Program

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

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