A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process for assessing biodiversity conservation

cg.coverage.countryIndonesia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ID
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.coverage.subregionKalimantan
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/916en
cg.isbn0-7923-7076-7en
cg.subject.ciforBIODIVERSITYen
dc.contributor.authorMendoza, G.A.en
dc.contributor.authorPrabhu, Ravien
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-04T09:06:25Zen
dc.date.available2012-06-04T09:06:25Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/18394
dc.titleA fuzzy analytic hierarchy process for assessing biodiversity conservationen
dcterms.abstractBiodiversity conservation, as one criterion for evaluating forest sustainability, is assessed using a fuzzy analytic hierarchical framework organised around three concepts; criteria, indicators, and verifiers. Following this hierarchical framework, a biodiversity conservation index model was developed as a two step process. First, analysis is done at the indicator level to estimate the cumulative impacts of the verifiers, which are modelled as fuzzy variables. At the second level, the cumulative impacts of the indicators are measured. In both levels, the analytic hierarchy process is used to estimate the relative importance of each element in the hierarchy. Biodiversity experts then provided opinions, through pairwise comparisons, for elements at each level in the hierarchy, producing estimates of their relative importance. Based on these importance values, a composite biodiversity conservation index is calculated by combining index values from both levels of the hierarchy. To demonstrate this approach, a case study involving a forest located in Kalimantan, Indonesia was used.en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMendoza, G.A., Prabhu, R. 2001. A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process for assessing biodiversity conservation . In: Schmoldt, D.L., Kangas, J, Mendoza, G.A. and Pesonen, M. (eds.). The analytic hierarchy process in natural resource and environmental decision making. :219-234. Dordrecht, Netherlands, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN: 0-7923-7076-7..en
dcterms.issued2001
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherKluwer Academic Publishersen
dcterms.subjectcriteriaen
dcterms.subjectdecision makingen
dcterms.subjectsustainabilityen
dcterms.subjectforest managementen
dcterms.subjectbiodiversityen
dcterms.subjectindicatorsen
dcterms.subjectanalysisen
dcterms.subjectnature conservationen
dcterms.typeBook Chapter

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