Silage corn production in conventional and conservation tillage systems. Part I: Sustainability analysis using combination of GIS/AHP and multi-fuzzy modeling

Houshyar, Ehsan; Sheikhdavoodi, Mohammad Javad; Almassi, Morteza; Bahrami, Houshang; Azadi, Hossein; Omidi, Mohsen; Sayyad, Gholamabbas; Witlox, Frank

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.12.002

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“…There are many methods for determining the weight of factors, such as the Delphi (Lehtonen & Tykkyläinen, 2014), AHP (Houshyara et al, 2014) and principal component analysis (Alfaro et al, 2014). The methods such as Delphi and AHP need priori knowledge or additional expertise, but S. sphenanthera is a wildlife species, and is lacking sufficient expert knowledge and conventional established definitions.…”

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Predictions of potential geographical distribution and quality ofSchisandra sphenantheraunder climate change

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Wei

et al. 2016

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Climate change will significantly affect plant distribution as well as the quality of medicinal plants. Although numerous studies have analyzed the effect of climate change on future habitats of plants through species distribution models (SDMs), few of them have incorporated the change of effective content of medicinal plants. Schisandra sphenanthera Rehd. et Wils. is an endangered traditional Chinese medical plant which is mainly located in the Qinling Mountains. Combining fuzzy theory and a maximum entropy model, we obtained current spatial distribution of quality assessment for S. spenanthera. Moreover, the future quality and distribution of S. spenanthera were also projected for the periods 2020s, 2050s and 2080s under three different climate change scenarios (SRES-A1B, SRES-A2 and SRES-B1 emission scenarios) described in the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). The results showed that the moderately suitable habitat of S. sphenanthera under all climate change scenarios remained relatively stable in the study area. The highly suitable habitat of S. sphenanthera would gradually decrease in the future and a higher decline rate of the highly suitable habitat area would occur under climate change scenarios SRES-A1B and SRES-A2. The result suggested that in the study area, there would be no more highly suitable habitat areas for S. sphenanthera when the annual mean temperature exceeds 20 °C or its annual precipitation exceeds 1,200 mm. Our results will be influential in the future ecological conservation and management of S. sphenanthera and can be taken as a reference for habitat suitability assessment research for other medicinal plants.

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Predictions of potential geographical distribution and quality ofSchisandra sphenantheraunder climate change

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“…In the water resource sector, AHP is a powerful tool used for the hierarchical decomposition of complex problems, such as integrated water resources management for watershed management (Zimmels et al 2006;Houshyar et al 2014). In sewage management, the AHP method is used to evaluate options for regions where sewage treatment should be implemented, to evaluate sewage treatment technology, and to rank suitable sites for municipal sewage facilities.…”

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Multi-index integrated assessment and analysis of town-sewage treatment priorities in China

Yan

Wang

et al. 2014

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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Water quality is one of the most serious problems of environment and national sustainable development strategy now facing China. After hard work over the last several decades, urban-sewage treatment in China is now relatively well developed. It now affords mainly higher levels of sewage collection and treatment, as well as pollution-load control. The characteristic rapid urbanization now occurring in China is still increasing and developing dramatically, and involves large numbers of people. However, in towns, sewage treatment infrastructure is inadequate, and a high percentage of the sewage generated there is not effectively collected and treated. The sewage and pollution load of such towns have become the most important reason for environmental water problems in China. To understand the priorities of sewage treatment in such towns, and their spatial distribution in China, we conducted two nationwide investigations of water use and sewage discharge in towns. Based on the integrated analytic hierarchy process (AHP), assessment indices and a framework of town-sewage treatment priorities in China were constructed. Then, we assessed and analyzed the priorities of towns regarding three aspects of sewage treatment: environmental stress, economic capability, and infrastructure. The results showed that the southeast coastal areas and north China had higher demand for sewage treatment than other areas. The demand in eastern and western areas had obvious differences in spatial distribution, but had nearly no differences within those areas. The towns having the greatest demand for high-priority sewage treatment were concentrated in regions with high economic capability and intense water resource utilization.

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“…Because the results of these GIS-based evaluation systems rely on which attributes are selected and weighted, further scientific selection or weighting processes are required. For example, weighting or prioritizing attributes have often been conducted using expert elicitation [45,46] or using a GIS-Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) combination method [47][48][49][50]. Attribute-based evaluation studies using AHP on forest sites have been developed to decide whether forests should be for conservation only or for recreational use only.…”

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A GIS-Assisted Assessment and Attribute-Based Clustering of Forest Wetland Utility in South Korea

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The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of forest wetlands by developing factors for site suitability and applying these factors to 107 sites in South Korea. We developed a forest wetland assessment in a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) environment to assess site suitability. We considered 16 factors including slope, elevation, visibility, land ownership, distance to city, and so on. We conducted an expert survey with experts to analyze the relative importance by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). We found that the order of importance of the 5 criteria applied in this study was: (1) Natural Ecology, (2) Land Use, (3) Natural Landscape, (4) Tourist Attraction, and (5) Accessibility. We then analyzed the spatial characteristics of each site based on the AHP result and divided the 107 forest wetlands into three categories by cluster analysis. Sites with high scores on the assessment were primarily the landscape ecology or land use criterion. Our differentiation of these forest wetland characteristics could help enable policymakers to develop sustainable management with the aim of balancing conservation with utilization in ecotourism destinations.

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Silage corn production in conventional and conservation tillage systems. Part I: Sustainability analysis using combination of GIS/AHP and multi-fuzzy modeling

Cited by 45 publications

References 53 publications

Predictions of potential geographical distribution and quality ofSchisandra sphenantheraunder climate change

Predictions of potential geographical distribution and quality ofSchisandra sphenantheraunder climate change

Multi-index integrated assessment and analysis of town-sewage treatment priorities in China

A GIS-Assisted Assessment and Attribute-Based Clustering of Forest Wetland Utility in South Korea

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