Understanding perceptions of stakeholder groups about Forestry Best Management Practices in Georgia

Tumpach, Chantal; Dwivedi, Puneet; Izlar, Robert L.; Cook, Chase

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.02.045

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“…These Facebook and Twitter posts contained information about the project, the recruitment video, a call for participation, a link to sign up to take the survey, and a request to share recruitment materials. Of note, mixed data collection methods involving focus group meetings, web surveys, and email contacts have been commonly adopted in SWOT-AHP based studies [ 34 , 37 , 48 ]. Accordingly, to broaden participation and increase replication of responses from members of the homeowner stakeholder group, we reached out to multiple neighborhood homeowner’s associations (HOA) in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA, the location of the authors’ home institution (Oklahoma State University).…”

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Stakeholder perceptions of bird-window collisions

2022

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Bird-window collisions are a major source of human-caused avian mortality for which many mitigation and prevention options are available. However, because very little research has characterized human perspectives related to this issue, there is limited understanding about the most effective ways to engage the public in collision reduction efforts. To address this research need, we: (1) evaluated how two stakeholder groups, homeowners and conservation practitioners, prioritize potential benefits and obstacles related to bird-window collision management, (2) compared priorities between these groups, and (3) evaluated potential conflicts and collective strength of opinions within groups. We addressed these objectives by merging the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) survey approaches. Specifically, survey respondents made pairwise comparisons between strengths and weaknesses (respectively, direct outcomes and barriers related to management, such as fewer collisions and increased costs) and opportunities and threats (indirect outcomes and barriers, such as increased bird populations and fewer resources for other building-related expenses). Both homeowners and conservation practitioners ranked strengths and opportunities higher than weaknesses and threats, indicating they have an overall positive perception toward reducing bird-window collisions. However, key obstacles that were identified included costs of management and a lack of policy and guidelines to require or guide management. These results suggest that substantial advances can be made to reduce bird-window collisions because both homeowners and conservation practitioners had positive views, suggesting their receptivity toward collision management measures. However, because of more neutral views and conflicting responses within the homeowner group, results also highlight the importance of targeting homeowners with education materials that provide information about bird-window collisions and solutions that reduce them. Because bird-window collisions are a human-caused phenomenon, such information about human perspectives and priorities will be crucial to addressing this threat and thus benefitting bird populations.

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Stakeholder perceptions of bird-window collisions

2022

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“…Objectives such as wood production, biodiversity conservation, protection, and climate change amelioration require long-term management to provide positive outcomes and meet various stakeholder interests. However, energy, social values, income, agriculture and non-timber forest products require short-term management activities [9,32].…”

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Evaluating Management Strategies for Mount Kenya Forest Reserve and National Park to Reduce Fire Danger and Address Interests of Various Stakeholders

Nyongesa

Vacik

2019

Forests

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A Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) approach was employed for evaluating and selecting the best management strategy for Mount Kenya Forest Reserve and National Park (MKFRNP). The MCA approach used a set of objectives and criteria (O&C) to address the complexity of the decision problem in a transparent and understandable way, which also facilitated the active participation by diverse professionals, experts, and interest groups. The management strategies were developed to fulfill the key components of MKFRNP management and the current situation in the study area. The seven management strategies focused on climate change mitigation, protection of water catchments, education and research, stakeholder involvement, biodiversity conservation, timber production, and community interests. Forest stations with differing fire danger levels (very high, high, moderate, and low) were selected to compare the performance of the management strategies. The strategies were assessed qualitatively on their potential to improve the current situation according to the entire set of O&C. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was employed to identify the best management strategy according to the overall preferences of all stakeholder groups. The AHP indicated that a strategy focusing on community interests provided the best option to address the current management challenges in all the seven forest stations independently of their fire danger levels. Biodiversity conservation should also be considered by resource managers in order to reduce fire danger and increase the benefits obtained by different stakeholders in MKFRNP.

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“…Compare the importance of improvement for Another characteristic of the AHP approach is the capability of examining the different opinions of various stakeholder groups of public transport: the government as a maintainer, organization as the administrator and travelers as clients. Their conflicting views regarding the key-purposes of a specific framework can be the reason for wrong choices regarding public transport implementation [45]. The different viewpoints of passengers, non-passengers and decision makers justify the use of different evaluator groups.…”

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Sustainable Urban Transport Planning Considering Different Stakeholder Groups by an Interval-AHP Decision Support Model

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Sustainable urban transport requires smart and environmentally-friendly technical solutions. It also needs to meet the demands of different user groups, including current and potential future users, in order to avoid opposition of the citizens and to support sustainable development decisions. While these requirements are well-known, conducting full surveys of user needs and preferences are tedious and costly, and the interests of different user groups may be contradictory. We therefore developed a methodology based on the prevalent Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which is capable of dealing with the inconsistencies and uncertainties of users’ responses by applying an Interval Analytic Hierarchy Process (IAHP) through comparing the results of passengers to reference stakeholder groups. For a case study in Mersin, a coastal city in southern Turkey with 1.7 Million inhabitants, three groups were surveyed with questionnaires: 40 users of the public transport system, 40 non-users, and 17 experts. Based on interval pairwise comparison matrices, consisting of whole judgments of all groups, the IAHP methodology could attain a consensual preference ranking for a future public transportation system between the three groups. A sensitivity analysis revealed that the factor ranking was very stable.

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Understanding perceptions of stakeholder groups about Forestry Best Management Practices in Georgia

Cited by 20 publications

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Stakeholder perceptions of bird-window collisions

Stakeholder perceptions of bird-window collisions

Evaluating Management Strategies for Mount Kenya Forest Reserve and National Park to Reduce Fire Danger and Address Interests of Various Stakeholders

Sustainable Urban Transport Planning Considering Different Stakeholder Groups by an Interval-AHP Decision Support Model

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