Multiple attribute evaluation of landscape management

Prato, Tony

doi:10.1006/jema.2000.0387

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“…Prato (2000) incorporates uncertainty in a stochastic model to identify the most efficient management plan, at the landscape scale, and determines its efficiency, maximizing the expected utility function. This work differences between publicly owned landscapes, whose objective is the management of ecosystems and landscapes of private property, with the goal of economic efficiency.…”

Section: Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Castro-Pardo

Urios

2016

EARN

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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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Section: Managementmentioning

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

Castro-Pardo

Urios

2016

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“…Weak sustainability of a system with respect to multiple criteria for which there are multiple observations can be assessed by determining whether the probability that the composite index equals or exceeds some minimum acceptable value is greater than or equal to 1 − φ [48]. Use of a composite index requires that all the criteria be either positive or negative.…”

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Conceptual Framework for Assessing the Sustainability of Forest Fuel Reduction Treatments and Their Adaptation to Climate Change

Prato

2015

Sustainability

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Applying fuel reduction treatments (FRTs) to forested landscapes can alleviate undesirable changes in wildfire benefits and costs due to climate change. A conceptual framework was developed for determining the preferred FRTs across planning periods, adapting FRTs to future climate change, assessing the sustainability of adaptive responses to climate change, and evaluating the validity of the two premises motivating this issue of Sustainability. The conceptual framework: (1) accounts for uncertainty about future climate change and its effects on management objectives for FRTs; (2) employs biophysical simulation and mental models to estimate the management objectives for FRTs; (3) uses fuzzy TOPSIS to determine the preferred FRTs for climate futures; (4) employs the minimax regret criterion to identify the preferred FRT for each planning period; (5) determines the best strategy for adapting FRTs to future climate change; and (6) assesses landscape sustainability when using the preferred FRTs. The framework is demonstrated with constructed examples for adapting FRTs to climate change for privately-and publicly-owned forested landscapes. Based on the conceptual framework, current knowledge does not allow determining with certainty whether managers' adaptations of FRTs to future climate change are sustainable or unsustainable due to type I and II decision errors.

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“…This allows them to capture and shape the nonlinearity interactions between variables that are valuable for us to incorporate multi-level factors into primary farmland zoning models and analyze their effects for farmland change. Another significant advantage of BNs is their ability to incorporate prior knowledge with new quantitative evidence [31,32], which contributes to the successful application of BNs in land use change studies [33,34] and environmental analyses [35,36]. This advantage also allows us to combine the dynamic change of farmland in the study area (prior knowledge) with suitability conditions of land use parcels (new evidence) when optimizing the spatial allocation of primary farmland.…”

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A Modeling Approach for Farmland Protection Zoning Considering Spatial Heterogeneity: A Case Study of E-Zhou City, China

Guan

2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:Farmland protection in China is facing multiple pressures, including urbanization, population growth and ecological degradation. Primary farmland zoning was introduced as a basic state policy to ensure national food security. Previous studies about "primary farmland zoning" have always taken the factors as global linear variables, neglecting the spatial heterogeneity of the study areas. Based on the Development Priority Zoning (DPZ) strategy, we present a zoning approach using Bayesian networks (BNs) for considering regional differences. The networks were developed using quantitative biophysical and economic variables from multi-scale and historical change data of farmland. The simulated results substantiate that this method can ensure the agricultural quality, stability and connectivity of primary farmland. Furthermore, it can further optimize the spatial allocation of primary farmland to meet the development conditions and trends of different sub-regions, promoting the balance between the farmland protection, urban development and ecological protection of certain regions.

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Multiple attribute evaluation of landscape management

Cited by 47 publications

References 20 publications

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

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

Conceptual Framework for Assessing the Sustainability of Forest Fuel Reduction Treatments and Their Adaptation to Climate Change

A Modeling Approach for Farmland Protection Zoning Considering Spatial Heterogeneity: A Case Study of E-Zhou City, China

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