Pareto Frontier Techniques are useful for multi-criteria forest management planning

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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). Borges, J. G., Garcia-Gonzalo, J., Bushenkov, V. A., McDill. M.E., Marques, S., Oliveira, M.M. 2013. Addressing multi-criteria forest management with Pareto Frontier methods: an application in Portugal. Forest Science. Available online: 4 de Abril de 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5849/forsci.12-100
Has related DSS	SADfLOR v pp 1.0
Has related case	Portugal-Supporting a multi stakeholders decision process in a Portuguese National Forest
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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