Hybrid Decision-Making Evaluation for Future Scenarios of Cultural Ecosystem Services

Peng, Li-Pei; Wang, Weiming

doi:10.3390/land9080257

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“…Ethnoculinary approaches, influencing researchers from different fields in tracing connections between populations often living in different geographic regions, also importantly deal with WFP [ 27 ]. WFP are also taken into account in the ever more relevant concept of ecosystem services, as a survival value of cultural ecosystem services, basic for livelihood [ 28 ]. In addition, WFP are important as ancestors or relatives of cultivated, including major crop, plants [ 29 ], and as a reservoir of genes not present in domesticated taxa or races that could be useful for new crop developments [ 30 ].…”

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The Power of Wild Plants in Feeding Humanity: A Meta-Analytic Ethnobotanical Approach in the Catalan Linguistic Area

Gras

Garnatje

Marín

et al. 2020

Foods

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Wild food plants (WFP) have always been present in our kitchen, although they have not always been given the same importance as crops. In the Catalan linguistic area (CLA), covered in this paper, WFP were of great importance as a subsistence food not only during the years of the Spanish civil war (1936–1939) and World War II (1939–1945), but also long before these periods and in the years thereafter. The CLA has been well studied at the level of traditional knowledge on plant biodiversity, and much of this information is collected in a database by the EtnoBioFiC research group. The aim of this work is to carry out a meta-analysis of the WFP dataset of the CLA (only regarding edible uses, drinks excluded) and to identify the most quoted plants, and the information associated with them. With data from 1659 informants, we recorded 10,078 use reports of 291 taxa (278 of which at specific or subspecific levels and 13 only determined at generic level) belonging to 67 families. The most reported taxa, also with highest cultural importance indexes, are Thymus vulgaris, Foeniculum vulgare subsp. piperitum, Laurus nobilis, Rubus ulmifolius and Mentha spicata. The ethnobotanicity index for food plants is 6.62% and the informant consensus factor, also for food uses, is a very high 0.97, supporting the robustness of the information. The results provided and discussed in this work concern a significant part of the edible resources in the territory considered, which is, often and mainly, underestimated and underutilised. Its consideration could be an opportunity to promote closer and more sustainable agriculture. From the state-of-the-art of this question, it is possible to propose old, in some cases forgotten foods that could be newly introduced onto the market, first, but not only, at a local level, which could be interesting for new crop development in the frame of a valorisation of territorial identity.

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The Power of Wild Plants in Feeding Humanity: A Meta-Analytic Ethnobotanical Approach in the Catalan Linguistic Area

Gras

Garnatje

Marín

et al. 2020

Foods

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“…Due to the above characteristics and objective mathematical calculations, no matter how small the difference in weight levels, any ANP element that appears in the overall evaluation structure is considered to be directly related to the overall evaluation. Therefore, the evaluation ranking results can be presented objectively [ 80 , 81 ]. Based on the use of comparative factors and sub-factors, and the possible interdependence between them, this technology has several advantages [ 82 ].…”

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A Hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach Based on ANP-Entropy TOPSIS for Building Materials Supplier Selection

Chen¹

2021

Entropy

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This article will tell you how to combine “entropy” in the model to reduce the bias of multi-criteria evaluation. Subjective weights are usually determined by decision makers based on their professional background, experience and knowledge, and other factors. The objective weight is obtained by constructing an evaluation matrix of the information based on the actual information of the evaluation criteria of the scheme, and obtained through multi-step calculations. Different decision-making methods are based on different weight types. Considering only one of the two weights often leads to biased results. In addition, in order to establish an effective supply chain, buyers must find suitable merchants among suppliers that provide quality products and/or services. Based on the above factors, it is difficult to choose a suitable alternative. The main contribution of this paper is to combine analytic network process (ANP), entropy weight and the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) to construct a suitable multi-criteria decision (MCDM) model. By means of ANP-entropy weights to extend the TOPSIS method, ANP-entropy weights are used to replace subjective weights. A supplier selection decision-making model based on ANP-entropy TOPSIS is proposed. At last, the sensitivity analysis shows that, taking the selection of building materials suppliers as an example, the hybrid ANP-entropy TOPSIS method can effectively select suitable suppliers.

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A study on the spatial and temporal dynamics of landscape spatial patterns of different types of rural communities in Taiwan

Ning,

Wang,

Chien

et al. 2023

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Hybrid Decision-Making Evaluation for Future Scenarios of Cultural Ecosystem Services

Cited by 4 publications

References 52 publications

The Power of Wild Plants in Feeding Humanity: A Meta-Analytic Ethnobotanical Approach in the Catalan Linguistic Area

The Power of Wild Plants in Feeding Humanity: A Meta-Analytic Ethnobotanical Approach in the Catalan Linguistic Area

A Hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach Based on ANP-Entropy TOPSIS for Building Materials Supplier Selection

A study on the spatial and temporal dynamics of landscape spatial patterns of different types of rural communities in Taiwan

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