Journal
FOREST SCIENCE
Volume 66, Issue 4, Pages 490-500Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/forsci/fxz014
Keywords
participatory forest management; bilevel problem; multiple criteria decision-making; Pareto frontier; ecosystem services; interactive decision maps
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Funding
- European Union [676754]
- Marie Skodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) within the H2020 work programme (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015) the project SUFORUN
- INFORMED project INtegrated research on FOrest Resilience and Management in the mEDiterranean
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia [PTDC/ASP-SIL/30391/2017, UID/AGR/00239/2013, SFRH/BPD/96806/2013, SFRH/BD/108225/2015, UID/MAT/04674/2013]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/108225/2015, PTDC/ASP-SIL/30391/2017] Funding Source: FCT
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This research addresses the problem of forested landscape management planning in contexts characterized by multiple ecosystem services and multiple stakeholders. A new methodology for participatory landscape-level forest management is proposed. Specifically, a bilevel representation is used, whereas models of subsystems are used for constructing an integrated model of the master problem. Participatory workshops and interactive visualization of the Pareto frontier are used to support the solution of the multi-objective optimization upper- and lower-level problems. The visualization is implemented by a technique-Interactive Decision Maps-that displays interactively the Pareto frontier in the form of decision maps, that is, collections of the objectives' tradeoff curves. Since the upper-level problem may be characterized by a large number of decision variables, we compare the Pareto frontier generated by the Interactive Decision Maps technique with the Pareto frontier generated by a decomposition approach that builds from the Pareto frontiers of the lower-level subproblems. The approach supports further the negotiation between upper- and lower-level goals. Results are discussed for a large-scale application in a forested landscape in northwest Portugal. Study Implications: The research in this manuscript aimed to engage the stakeholders, forest owners, and policy makers by promoting the use of tools to integrate forest management activities and by providing a negotiation setting that may facilitate the acceptance of results from this research.
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