Open AccessPlanificación multicriterio de explotaciones agrarias en áreas tropicales protegidas. El caso de la zona protectora Guanare-Masparro (Venezuela)
Author(s) -
J. O. Flores,
José A. GómezLimón
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
economía agraría y recursos naturales/economía agraria y recursos naturales
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2174-7350
pISSN - 1578-0732
DOI - 10.7201/earn.2006.11.04
Subject(s) - compromise , analytic hierarchy process , business , population , agricultural land , order (exchange) , environmental planning , geography , agriculture , environmental economics , environmental resource management , welfare economics , political science , operations research , environmental science , economics , engineering , sociology , finance , demography , archaeology , law
This work has as main objective the development of a methodological approach for multicriteria planning of agricultural land in rain-forest protected areas. For this purpose two main techniques have been used: the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Compromise Programming (CP), both employed in order to include into the analysis objectives from a triple point of view: economics, social and environmental. The methodological approach proposed has been implemented in a Venezuelan protected area, where agricultural activities have been historically the main source of income for its population. The results point out the existence of important conflicts between the objectives considered, showing the convenience of public intervention in order to promote a performance of agricultural sector according to the compromise solutions obtained.