TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrating stakeholder preferences and GIS-based multicriteria analysis to identify forest landscape restoration priorities
AU - Uribe, David
AU - Geneletti, Davide
AU - del Castillo, Rafael F.
AU - Orsi, Francesco
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - A pressing question that arises during the planning of an ecological restoration process is: where to restore first? Answering this question is a complex task; it requires a multidimensional approach to consider economic constrains and the preferences of stakeholders. Being the problem of spatial nature, it may be explored effectively through Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) performed in a Geographical Information System (GIS) environment. The proposed approach is based on the definition and weighting of multiple criteria for evaluating land suitability. An MCDA-based methodology was used to identify priority areas for Forest Landscape Restoration in the Upper Mixtec region, Oaxaca (Mexico), one of the most degraded areas of Latin America. Socioeconomic and environmental criteria were selected and evaluated. The opinions of four different stakeholder groups were considered: general public, academic, Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and governmental officers. The preferences of these groups were spatially modeled to identify their priorities. The final result was a map that identifies the most preferable sites for restoration, where resources and efforts should be concentrated. MCDA proved to be a very useful tool in collective planning, when alternative sites have to be identified and prioritized to guide the restoration work.
AB - A pressing question that arises during the planning of an ecological restoration process is: where to restore first? Answering this question is a complex task; it requires a multidimensional approach to consider economic constrains and the preferences of stakeholders. Being the problem of spatial nature, it may be explored effectively through Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) performed in a Geographical Information System (GIS) environment. The proposed approach is based on the definition and weighting of multiple criteria for evaluating land suitability. An MCDA-based methodology was used to identify priority areas for Forest Landscape Restoration in the Upper Mixtec region, Oaxaca (Mexico), one of the most degraded areas of Latin America. Socioeconomic and environmental criteria were selected and evaluated. The opinions of four different stakeholder groups were considered: general public, academic, Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and governmental officers. The preferences of these groups were spatially modeled to identify their priorities. The final result was a map that identifies the most preferable sites for restoration, where resources and efforts should be concentrated. MCDA proved to be a very useful tool in collective planning, when alternative sites have to be identified and prioritized to guide the restoration work.
KW - Afforestation
KW - Forest Landscape Restoration
KW - GIS
KW - Multicriteria decision analysis
KW - Priority areas
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84897089903&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/su6020935
DO - 10.3390/su6020935
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:84897089903
SN - 2071-1050
VL - 6
SP - 935
EP - 951
JO - Sustainability (Switzerland)
JF - Sustainability (Switzerland)
IS - 2
ER -