Pareto Frontier Techniques are useful for multi-criteria forest management planning
From COST Action FP0804: FORSYS
Lesson
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| Has statement | Pareto Frontier Techniques are useful for multi-criteria forest management planning. The method provides information about non-dominated points in the feasible set so that decision-makers may take advantage of trade-off information among different criteria. This method does not need a priori |
| Has evidence | The practice of multi-criteria forest management planning is often complicated by the need to explicit a priori the goals and preferences of the decision maker. Defining a priori the goals and preferences may not be realistic and lead to poor management decisions (Tóth et al., 2006). Pareto fronteir thecniques are posteriori methods that provide information about the set of efficient solutions (e.g. management plans) and the level of achievement of the different criteria analyed. This information can help the decision-maker understand the trade-offs between competing objectives. The analysis of these trade-offs may provide further insight about the forest management planning problem and help set adequate levels of achievement for various objectives (i.e. defining the goals after having trade-offs information. |
| Has consequences | Generating and visualizing the complete set of efficient (i.e., Pareto optimal) solutions to forest planning problems help the DMs to acquire a holistic view of the planning problem and provide them with more information to select a best compromise management plan. |
| Has recommendation for action | Methods to generate and visualize Pareto frontiers should be incorporated in DSS to provide more information to DMs to select a best compromise management plan. |
| Has domain | Models and methods, User interface and outputs |
| Has DSS development stage | Use |
| Has decision stage | |
| Has temporal scale | Long term (strategic) |
| Has spatial context | Non spatial |
| Has spatial scale | Forest level, Regional/national level |
| Has objectives dimension | Multiple objectives |
| Has goods and services dimension | Market non-wood products, Market wood products, Non-market services |
| Has decision making dimension | More than one decision maker/stakeholder, Single decision maker |
| Has country | Portugal |
| Has reference | Garcia-Gonzalo, J., Palma, J., Freire, J., Tomé, M. Mateus, R., Luiz Carlos E. Rodríguez., Bushenkov, V., Borges, J. G. A decision support system for a multi stakeholder’s decision process in a Portuguese National Forest. Forest Systems. (In print).
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| Has related DSS | SADfLOR v pp 1.0 |
| Has related case | Portugal-Supporting a multi stakeholders decision process in a Portuguese National Forest |
| Has related lesson | |
| Has other relevant information | |
| Has working group theme | Dss development process, Models & techniques |
| Has DSS development | Pareto Frontier Techniques are useful for multi-criteria forest management planning.Description of DSS development |
| Has decision support techniques | Pareto Frontier Techniques are useful for multi-criteria forest management planning.Decision support techniques |
| Has knowledge management processes | Pareto Frontier Techniques are useful for multi-criteria forest management planning.Knowledge management process |
| Has support for social participation | Pareto Frontier Techniques are useful for multi-criteria forest management planning.Support of social participation |
| Has actor perspective | Developer/Architect, Researcher, User |
| Has researcher role | Decision analyst |
| Has user role | Decision maker, Forest manager, Stakeholders |
| Has developer role | Architect, Project manager |
