Assessment of the soil protection function of forest ecosystems using GIS-based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: A case study in Adıyaman, Turkey

Bozali, Nuri

doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01271

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“…The function of a forest in the landscape is irreplaceable because it slows down runoff, thus preventing soil erosion and stabilising slopes (Guo et al, 2020), while reducing soil desiccation and wind velocity. Forest is an ecosystem with the highest wind resistance (Bozali, 2020), which reduces wind velocities contributing to lower deflation of small waste fractions and to decreased spreading of propagules of weed or invasive plant species. Apart from forests, there are also meadows surrounding the Petrůvky landfill.…”

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Municipal solid waste landfill: Evidence of the effect of applied landfill management on vegetation composition

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Proper management of municipal solid waste (MSW) is crucial to avoid pollution, environmental impacts and threat to public health. The problem of MSW is mainly arising from inadequate landfill site management. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of management practices and environmental risks at two landfill sites. The landfills were subject to long-term (10 years) vegetation monitoring. The vegetation was assessed using a floristic survey of identified plant species. The vegetation analysis showed that significant differences existed between the two landfill locations, with neophytes, invasive and expansive species dominating on one of the landfill sites, which may be attributed to climatic and geomorphological differences between the two sites, but also to variations in landfill management. These environmentally problematic species can potentially spread from the landfill into adjacent ecosystems, displace native plants and degrade adjacent farmland areas. The study of vegetation monitoring data suggests that, in addition to other types of monitoring, landfills should be subjected to regular vegetation biomonitoring, too. Landfill management practices should target the regulation of unwanted species, create conditions that are favourable to native plant species and provide as early as possible the restoration of filled cells.

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Municipal solid waste landfill: Evidence of the effect of applied landfill management on vegetation composition

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“…Based on evaluation indicator scores and evaluation indicator weights determined by an analytic hierarchical process, a linear weighted summation model was used to evaluate the importance of ecosystem service functions [ 39 ]. The formula is as follows:

where

is the comprehensive score of the importance of ecosystem service function unit j;

denotes the score of the i th indicator in unit j; and

is the corresponding weight for that evaluation indicator.…”

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Land Use Conflict Identification Coupled with Ecological Protection Priority in Jinan City, China

Dong

Wang

Zhang

et al. 2023

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Land use conflicts exacerbate soil erosion and reduce biodiversity, which is detrimental to sustainable development. Multiple methods such as multi-criteria evaluation and landscape pattern indexes can identify land use conflicts, but few studies conform to the concept of green development. The concept of green development gives priority to ecological protection and coordinates the relationship between production development, food production and ecological protection to achieve sustainable development. Taking Jinan City (China) as the study area, we identified the ecological source areas by evaluating the importance of ecosystem service functions and ecological sensitivity, then extracted and optimized the ecological corridor network (using the minimum cumulative resistance model and gravity model), and constructed the ecological security pattern. Spatial overlay analysis of cultivated land, construction land, and the ecological security pattern was performed to identify the types and intensity of land use conflicts. Spatially, we found that ecological land was in more serious conflict with cultivated land than construction land. Different types of land use conflicts have significant differences in spatial distribution. The key to land use conflict mediation in Jinan City is to balance food security with the improvements in the quality of the ecological environment. Hence, it is necessary to delineate the main functional zones and formulate tailored land use conflict mediation strategies in each zone. The method for land use conflict identification proposed here follows the principle of giving priority to ecological protection, providing a scientific reference for the utilization and protection of territorial space in other similar areas.

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“…It is widely acknowledged by academics and practitioners that, due to its ease of use and understanding, AHP facilitates structuring the complexity, measurement, and synthesis of rankings [44,45]. Nonetheless, to our knowledge, just a handful of papers in the literature exist on the implementation of the AHP to the valuation of ESs [46][47][48][49][50].…”

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The Valuation of Ecosystem Services in the Venice Lagoon: A Multicriteria Approach

D’Alpaos

2021

Sustainability

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Coastal ecosystems are among the most economically valuable and highly threatened on Earth; they provide valuable ecosystem services (ESs) but are severely exposed to climate changes and human pressure. Although the preservation of coastal ecosystems is of the utmost importance, it is often sub-optimally pursued by Governments and Societies because of the high costs involved. We consider salt-marsh ecosystems in the Venice Lagoon as an example of a threatened landscape, calling for innovative, integrated management strategies, and propose an application-driven methodological framework to support policymakers in the identification of cost-effective incentive policies to ecosystem preservation. By combining group decision-making and Value-Focused-Thinking approaches, we provide a multiple-criteria decision model, based on pairwise comparisons, to identify which ESs are top-priority policy targets according to a cost-effective perspective. We implemented an online Delphi survey process and interviewed a pool of experts who identified “recreation and tourism”, “coastal protection from flooding”, “carbon storage”, “biodiversity and landscape”, and “nursery habitats for fisheries” as the five most relevant ESs for the Venice Lagoon taking into consideration the Environmental, Economic, and Social perspectives. Our results suggest that the Environmental perspective is the most important criteria, whereas “biodiversity and landscape” is acknowledged as the most important ES.

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Assessment of the soil protection function of forest ecosystems using GIS-based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: A case study in Adıyaman, Turkey

Cited by 18 publications

References 23 publications

Municipal solid waste landfill: Evidence of the effect of applied landfill management on vegetation composition

Municipal solid waste landfill: Evidence of the effect of applied landfill management on vegetation composition

Land Use Conflict Identification Coupled with Ecological Protection Priority in Jinan City, China

The Valuation of Ecosystem Services in the Venice Lagoon: A Multicriteria Approach

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