Nilsson, Hilma and Nordström, Eva-Maria and Öhman, Karin
(2016).
Decision support for participatory forest planning using AHP and TOPSIS.
Forests. 7
:5
, 1-17
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f7050100
Abstract
Long-term forest management planning often involves several stakeholders with conflicting objectives, creating a complex decision process. Multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) presents a promising framework for finding solutions in terms of suitable trade-offs among the objectives. However, many of the MCDA methods that have been implemented in forest management planning can only be used to compare and evaluate a limited number of management plans, which increases the risk that the most suitable plan is not included in the decision process. The aim of this study is to test whether the combination of two MCDA methods can facilitate the evaluation of a large number of strategic forest management plans in a situation with multiple objectives and several stakeholders. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to set weights for objectives based on stakeholder preferences and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) was used to produce an overall ranking of alternatives. This approach was applied to a case study of the Vilhelmina municipality, northern Sweden. The results show that the combination of AHP and TOPSIS is easy to implement in participatory forest planning and takes advantage of the capacity of forest decision support systems to create a wide array of management plans. This increases the possibility that the most suitable plan for all stakeholders will be identified.
Authors/Creators: | Nilsson, Hilma and Nordström, Eva-Maria and Öhman, Karin | ||||||
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Title: | Decision support for participatory forest planning using AHP and TOPSIS | ||||||
Series Name/Journal: | Forests | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2016 | ||||||
Volume: | 7 | ||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||
Page range: | 1-17 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 17 | ||||||
Publisher: | MDPI | ||||||
ISSN: | 1999-4907 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Research article | ||||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 401 Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries > Forest Science | ||||||
Agrovoc terms: | forest management plans | ||||||
Keywords: | Analytic Hierarchy Process, forest decision support system, forest management, the Heureka system, multiple criteria decision analysis, multiple objectives, Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-4114 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-4114 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 14238 | ||||||
Faculty: | S - Faculty of Forest Sciences | ||||||
Department: | (S) > Dept. of Forest Resource Management (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Forest Resource Management | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 20 Apr 2017 08:40 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2020 14:17 |
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