A GIS-based multi-criteria decision making approach to forest conservation planning at a landscape scale: a case study in the Kinabalu Area, Sabah, Malaysia

Phua, Mui How; Minowa, Mitsuhiro

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2004.03.004

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“…In order to reduce the subjectivity of setting weights, the weights were proposed using an expert-panel approach, i.e. 5 forestry and hydrology experts were asked to weight the criteria (as suggested for example by Sierra et al 2002, or Phua, Minowa 2005. Experts' background was hydrology (2 experts), forest bioclimatology (2 experts) and hydropedology (1 expert).…”

Section: Data Analysis and Multi-criteria Decision Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To reduce the subjectivity of decisions concerning selection and preferences of input criteria, several experts' inputs can be used, and thus one can arrive at the selection of more robust criteria and weight assignment (e.g. Sierra et al 2002;Phua, Minowa 2005), as has been presented in this study. Sophisticated approaches to coping with subjective judgement in multi-criteria decision making have been proposed, for example, by Yeh and Chang (2009) or Anisseh and Yusuff (2011).…”

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Regional assessment of forest effect on watershed hydrology: Slovakia as a case study

Hlásny¹,

Sitková²,

Barka³

2013

J. For. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Recently, the importance of forest effect on watershed hydrology has been increasingly recognized due to an elevated threat of floods and expected alterations of water regime in watersheds induced by climate change. We assessed the trade-off between natural conditions of 61 basic watersheds in Slovakia and expected water-regulatory capacity of forest in these watersheds. A multi-criteria decision-making scheme was proposed to calculate a coefficient for each watershed indicating the need to regulate its water regime as given by natural conditions, and another coefficient indicating the magnitude of forest water-regulatory capacity given by forest structure and distribution. Factors indicating the forest water-regulatory capacity were extent of forest cover, forest fragmentation and distribution in watersheds relative to the spring area, forest stand density and vertical structure, and tree species composition. The results indicate that the present structure and distribution of forests in Slovakia has potential to moderately regulate the water regime at the scale of basic watersheds. We identified critical watersheds where natural conditions imply the unfavourable water regime and/or the forest water-regulatory capacity is weak. Limits of forest effect on watershed hydrology and caveats for interpreting the presented findings are discussed.

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Section: Data Analysis and Multi-criteria Decision Makingmentioning

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Section: Relationship Between Watershed Natural Conditions and Forestmentioning

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Regional assessment of forest effect on watershed hydrology: Slovakia as a case study

Hlásny¹,

Sitková²,

Barka³

2013

J. For. Sci.

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“…This methodology has been successfully applied to combine geographic information system (GIS) information and forest planning (Phua and Minowa, 2005). Recently, this methodology was integrated with both bioenergy and multifunctionality assessment in a GIS environment (Sacchelli et al, 2013b).…”

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Matching socio-economic and environmental efficiency of wood-residues energy chain: a partial equilibrium model for a case study in Alpine area

Sacchelli

Bernetti

Meo

et al. 2014

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Keywords:Wood energy chain Partial equilibrium model Multi-objective linear programming Geographic information system Sustainability assessment a b s t r a c tCombining the economics and the environmental and social aspects of bioenergy chain implementation is a difficult task, particularly for wood fuel production. Multiple aspects, such as financial analysis, technology development, natural resource exploitation and avoided environmental pollution, must be considered simultaneously. Thus, decision support models seem to be the proper tools for the overall definition of strategies in the wood energy sector.The objective of this study has been to develop a partial equilibrium model able to quantify the socioeconomic and environmental effects of policy, technology and best biomass allocation scenarios on the forest residue chain. The model, based on multi-objective linear programming and spatial analysis, considers the financial benefits/losses and the potential trends of three compartments: sawmills, forest enterprises and energy plants. In addition, the model computes avoided emissions for bioheat and bioelectricity production and introduces an impact indicator for the road transport of biomass. Model outputs are defined using a multi criteria approach. The main results stress the importance of both environmental parameters and the implementation of organic Rankine cycle technology for the optimization of the entire bioenergy chain. The model was tested in an Italian Alpine region (province of Trento).

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“…However, despite the potential of MCDA model for integration to deal with spatial units problems, it gained attention only in a certain period of times in some practical researches and managerial limits [15] . Urban planners used the strategy of MCDA integration for dealing with spatial issues from 1990s [38] . A city system can not be studied only by considering the simple concepts like land use or traffic.…”

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An assessment of Urban Quality of Life by Using Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach (Case study: Comparative Study of Quality of Life in the North of Iran)

Lotfi¹,

Solaimani²

2009

J. of Social Sciences

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Problem Statement: Researches of quality of life are concentrated mainly on the urban nature in the recent years and the urban quality of life gained many attentions in empirical studies. The concept of urban quality of life is a multi-dimensional and complex issue. So, needless to say that this concept can be used in planning when there is an appropriate and reliable framework for measuring. Approach: The present study tried to create a framework on the base of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for objective measuring of urban quality of life and then it would be applied for a comparative study of two northern cities of Iran. Results: The results showed that using analytic hierarchy process model creates opportunity to involving the different groups' views of urban users with respect to their duties and functions in the stage of criteria weighting. Conclusion: This process not only provided an appropriate bed for objective measuring of urban quality of life but it facilitated the participation of urban authorities in the process of measuring and analyzing the urban quality. Also one of the advantages of the model was its high level of clarity and simplicity which could be perceived by all urban decision makers. Key words:Objective Urban Quality of Life (UQOL), Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), measuring, comparative study INTRUDUCTIONResearchers from a variety of disciplines have studied Quality Of Life (QOL) since the 1930s [53] . They tried to identify the components of QOL and compared various geographical areas such as cities, states and nations by means of QOL indices that they developed [2,3,25,48,47] . In addition to the researchers, international organizations such as UNDP [51] developed its own measures for QOL. The desire to improve the quality of life in a particular place or for a particular person or group is an important focus of attention for planners [28] . An important reason for such an interest in QOL lies in the question of effective allocation of scarce resources [32] . In fact improvement of life quality in each society is one of the important aims of public policies. In recent years studies of life quality have mainly concentrated on the urban nature and urban quality of life gained much attention among the researchers. Clearly the increase of urban population and the increasing tendency for living in the city is one of the main incentives to expand an independent movement on life quality researches.The urban QOL concept gains more importance when it is considered that the world population is expected to reach somewhere between 7.6-9.4 billion [22] and the urban population is expected to reach 50% [47] in the beginning of the next century. The multi-dimensional character and evolutional nature of quality of life led to different interpretations which made the investigation difficult. So the recent research on the quality of life emphasis on the quality of measuring this concept in the cities. Clark and Kahn [7] used a two-stage hedonic approach to estimate willingness to pay fo...

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A GIS-based multi-criteria decision making approach to forest conservation planning at a landscape scale: a case study in the Kinabalu Area, Sabah, Malaysia

Cited by 221 publications

References 44 publications

Regional assessment of forest effect on watershed hydrology: Slovakia as a case study

Regional assessment of forest effect on watershed hydrology: Slovakia as a case study

Matching socio-economic and environmental efficiency of wood-residues energy chain: a partial equilibrium model for a case study in Alpine area

An assessment of Urban Quality of Life by Using Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach (Case study: Comparative Study of Quality of Life in the North of Iran)

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