Multi-criteria decision analysis in natural resource management: A critical review of methods and new modelling paradigms

By Guillermo Mendoza, H. Martins. 2006

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Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Management Science and Operations Research

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A participatory systems approach to modeling social, economic, and ecological components of bioenergy (2007, methodology): “For a more in-depth analysis of MCA, Belton and Stewart (2002) and Mendoza and Martins (2006) discuss different approaches and techniques of MCA in general and applications for natural resource management in particular, respectively.”
Making forestry decisions with multiple criteria: A review and an assessment (2008, neutral): “Mendoza and Martins (2006) undertook an exhaustive review of the MCDM methods used in natural resource management, emphasizing the forestry case.”
Analysis of the potentials of multi criteria decision analysis methods to conduct sustainability assessment (2014, background): “Thresholds can be used for two main reasons, the first one being that they allow to account for indifference and preference when two alternatives are compared (Mendoza and Martins, 2006) and the second one being that they affect degree of compensation among the different criteria (Buchholz et al.”
A multi-criteria approach for an integrated land-cover-based assessment of ecosystem services provision to support landscape planning (2012, background): “Thus, data of divers sources can be applied in an aggregation framework allowing for an examination of the initial problem (Belton and Stewart, 2002; Mendoza and Martins, 2006).”
Towards ecosystem-based management: identifying operational food-web indicators for marine ecosystems (2017, background): “It is essentially a multi-criteria decision analysis (Mendoza and Martins, 2006; Pereira et al., 2013), whereby the selection of indicators is agreed-to before use in tracking ecosystem status.”
Setting Conservation Priorities (2009, background): “…Analysis is a formal scoring approach developed for operations research in the 1940s and has been applied in natural resource management and for the conservation of biodiversity (Fernandes et al. 1999; Hajkowicz et al. 2000; Villa et al. 2002; Mendoza and Martins 2006; Moffett and Sarkar 2006).”
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Cost-Benefit Analysis: Comparing alternative frameworks for integrated valuation of ecosystem services (2016, neutral): “It is rooted in operational research and support for single decision-makers (Mendoza and Martins 2006), often in terms of finding an optimal solution to a decision-making problem.”
Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda (2012, background): “(63, 138), and multicriterion decision analysis (139), offers proven tools for negotiating across preferences of multiple stakeholders and multiple scales without requiring the monetization of what many regard as intrinsically nonmonetary values.”
Multi-objective multi-agent decision making: a utility-based analysis and survey (2019, background): “Such trade-offs appear in a wide range of domains such as urban transportation [12,38], aviation [58,190], management of natural resources [43,100] and robotics [32,119]; these are all domains where multi-objective multiagent approaches could confer huge benefits.”
GIS-Based Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis (2011, methodology): “Genetic algorithms, SA and other techniques such as cellular automata (CA) (Malczewski 2004; Myint and Wang 2006; White et al. 2004) are collectively referred to as geocomputation when used in spatial problems.”
Uncertainty and risk in wildland fire management: a review. (2011, background): “Mendoza and Martins (2006) identify randomness, imprecision, and unknown preferences as factors contributing to uncertainty in multi-criteria decision analysis.”
ELECTRE: A comprehensive literature review on methodologies and applications (2016, methodology): “…of alternatives against each other (or against a pre-deﬁned norm) on each criterion, followed by a procedure that aggregates and exploits the information, in order to determine the strength of evidence supporting that one alternative should be favored over another (Mendoza & Martins, 2006).”