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Type:
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Journal Article |
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Author:
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Sarkar, Sahotra; Garson, Justin |
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Journal:
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Conservation and Society |
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Volume:
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2 |
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Date:
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2004 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2503
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Sector:
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Theory
Forestry |
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North America
South America |
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Subject(s):
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protected areas--theory
networks--theory
decision making--theory
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Abstract:
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"This article shows how a standard technique from multiple-criteria decision making, the computation of non-dominated alternative sets, can be adapted to incorporate non-biological criteria such as socio-political ones during the design of bio-diversity conservation area networks. There are three chief advantages of this approach: (a) unlike almost all other methods for incorporating multiple criteria in decision making, this technique avoids making arbitrary utility assignments to alternative; (b) it only requires comparative rankings of alternatives under the criteria to be synchronized; and (c) it often results in several alternative of equal status, leaving a further choice to be made by political decision-making bodies. This allows those bodies to bring into consideration criteria that cannot be satisfactorily formally modeled. The use of this method demonstrated using a data set from Texas, one from Ecuador and two artificially constructed data sets."
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