Open AccessIncorporating multiple criteria into the design of conservation area networks: a minireview with recommendations
Author(s) -
Moffett Alexander,
Sarkar Sahotra
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
diversity and distributions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.918
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1472-4642
pISSN - 1366-9516
DOI - 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2005.00202.x
Subject(s) - multiple criteria decision analysis , analytic hierarchy process , set (abstract data type) , computer science , process (computing) , hierarchy , management science , core (optical fiber) , value (mathematics) , goal programming , operations research , risk analysis (engineering) , mathematics , engineering , economics , machine learning , business , telecommunications , market economy , programming language , operating system
We provide a review of multicriteria decision‐making (MCDM) methods that may potentially be used during systematic conservation planning for the design of conservation area networks (CANs). We review 26 methods and present the core ideas of 19 of them. We suggest that the computation of the non‐dominated set (NDS) be the first stage of any such analysis. This process requires only that alternatives be qualitatively ordered by each criterion. If the criteria can also be similarly ordered, at the next stage, Regime is the most appropriate method to refine the NDS. If the alternatives can also be given quantitative values by the criteria, Goal Programming will prove useful in many contexts. If both the alternatives and the criteria can be quantitatively evaluated, and the criteria are independent of each other but may be compounded, then multi‐attribute value theory (MAVT) should be used (with preferences conveniently elicited by a modified Analytic Hierarchy Process (mAHP) provided that the number of criteria is not large).