The combined use of Spatial Multicriteria Evaluation and stakeholders analysis for supporting the ecological planning of a river basin

Comino, Elena; Bottero, Marta; Pomarico, Silvia; Rosso, Maurizio

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.07.026

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“…The main strengths of the model are its simplicity and generality, which allowed its application to protected areas of any type and in any place in the world. Several multi-criteria models to add stakeholder preferences in protected areas planning have been proposed in the literature (e.g., ANANDA & HERATH, 2008;COMINO et al, 2016;ESMAIL & GENELETTI, 2018;GURNEY et al, 2015). Some studies have used these techniques to identify the objectives of protected sites (GUAITA et al, 2019;.…”

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Looking for consensual protection categories to reduce conservation conflicts in protected áreas

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Decision-making in protected areas is often difficult due to an unclear definition of management objectives and indicators for their monitoring. This is frequently related to the coexistence of systems of protected areas at national and regional levels for which management objectives are ambiguous or that are not directly related to protected areas classification standards. In this study, we proposed a participative model based on PROMETHEE II to find consensual protected areas categories based on IUCN framework. This model involved the stakeholder's assessments of management objectives in a protected area and their aggregation based on distance comparisons with objectives of international protected areas standards. The model was tested in the Albufera de Valencia Natural Park, a strongly humanmodified wetland located in Eastern Spain and it allowed the identification of consensual management priorities and the IUCN category V as the equivalent international protected area category for this regional protected area. RESUMO:A tomada de decisão em áreas protegidas é frequentemente um processo difícil pelo facto de não se encontrarem claramente definidos os objetivos de gestão e os indicadores para o seu monitoramento. Tal está habitualmente relacionado com a coexistência de sistemas de áreas protegidas a nível nacional e regional para os quais os objetivos de conservação são ambíguos, ou não se encontram diretamente enquadrados em normas formais de classificação de áreas protegidas. Neste estudo propomos um modelo participativo baseado em "PROMETHEE II" para definir categorias de áreas protegidas consensuais baseadas na estrutura da UICN. Este modelo considera a avaliação dos objetivos de gestão por parte de atores em áreas protegidas, e a sua agregação baseada na comparação de distâncias com os objetivos de normas internacionais destas áreas. O modelo foi testado no Albufera de Valencia Natural Park, uma zona úmida fortemente antropizada localizada no Leste de Espanha, o que permitiu a identificação de prioridades consensuais de gestão e a categoria V da UICN como a categoria internacional de área protegida equivalente para esta área protegida regional. Palavras-chave: áreas protegidas, governança, objetivos de conservação, PROMETHEE II.

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“…As a hypothetical case study, they conducted a spatial river restoration prioritization for a small river catchment in Switzerland. Comino, Bottero, Pomarico, and Rosso (2016) applied spatial MCDA to support policy and action definition for managing the Pellice river basin in Italy. Langhans and Lienert (2016) found that four MCDA elements, which are often simplified in river restoration assessments due to time and/or resource constraints, do not reflect experts' opinions and should therefore be avoided in implementations.…”

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On the use of multicriteria decision analysis to formally integrate community values into ecosystem‐based freshwater management

Langhans

Jähnig

Schallenberg

2018

River Research & Apps

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Freshwater ecosystems are essential to peoples' economic, cultural, and social well‐being, yet are still among the most threatened ecosystems on the planet. Consequently, a plethora of recent regulations and policies seek to halt the loss of restore or safeguard freshwaters, their biodiversity, and the ecosystem services they provide. Ecosystem‐based management (EBM), an approach that considers human society as an integral part of ecosystems, is increasingly being promoted to help meet this challenge. EBM involves an overarching regulatory framework and local solutions with trade‐offs and compromises—factors that not only make decision processes complex but also provide the means for combining top–down regulation with bottom‐up priorities into collaborative management strategies. Although stakeholder participation is encouraged in most modern freshwater management, community values are often largely neglected. Here, we introduce a well‐known participatory decision support framework based on multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) to operationalize EBM and promote community‐inclusive decision making in freshwater management. We explain the different steps that this approach comprises, which lead to the prioritization of a management strategy in a collaborative way. We also show how cultural values that inherently embed strong links between the environment and people can be used together with typical ecological and socio‐economic values. We illustrate the MCDA‐based EBM‐approach for New Zealand, one of the few countries in which regional freshwater management is mandated to uphold environmental quality standards, while safeguarding local community values and ecosystem services. Finally, we discuss some of the challenges, which are increasingly emerging as a result of mandated community collaboration in environmental management.

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“…In recent years, there have many examples of the use of the Spatial Decision Support System in combination with multi-criteria analysis, especially in the field of land-use planning, sustainability assessment, and environmental decision-making [16,[24][25][26][27][28]. The SMDSS refers to the application of multi-criteria analysis in a spatial context where alternatives, criteria, and other elements of the decision problem have a spatial dimension.…”

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“…In fact, in all multi-criteria problems, the criteria are associated with a set of weights that reflect the scale of preferences of different groups of stakeholders involved. The output of an SMDSS model consists of one or more maps of the same area, which indicates the extent to which criteria are met or not in different contexts, and thereby supports planning or decision-making [28].…”

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Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision Support System and Strategic Environmental Assessment: A Case Study

Torrieri

Batà

2017

Buildings

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This contribution focuses on the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) as an important tool to ensure sustainable development and reach a high level of environmental protection. More specifically, this paper provides an evaluation method based on the integration of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Multi-criteria Analysis-named Integrated Spatial Multi-criteria Decision Support System (ISMDSS)-to support the preparation of environmental assessment reports and the construction of scenarios for the adoption of urban plans, as an innovative tool that integrates objectives and multidimensional (economic, environmental, and social) components, as well as different approaches and models for the construction of a long-term shared vision. In particular, considerations are made by presenting a thought-provoking case study on the SEA of the urban plan of the municipality of Marzano di Nola, located in the province of Avellino in the Campania region. The experiment carried out showed the potentiality of the ISMDSS to evaluate the impacts of different scenarios with the aim of developing a sustainable urban municipal plan. The spatial dimension is useful in understanding the dynamics that characterize each environmental topic in a specific area, by considering not only the components of the natural and developed environment, but also the interactions with social and economic components.

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The combined use of Spatial Multicriteria Evaluation and stakeholders analysis for supporting the ecological planning of a river basin

Cited by 43 publications

References 50 publications

Looking for consensual protection categories to reduce conservation conflicts in protected áreas

Looking for consensual protection categories to reduce conservation conflicts in protected áreas

On the use of multicriteria decision analysis to formally integrate community values into ecosystem‐based freshwater management

Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision Support System and Strategic Environmental Assessment: A Case Study

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