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Assessing Coastal Erosion and Climate Change Adaptation Measures: A Novel Parti...
Coelho, Carlos; Lima, Márcia; Moreira Alves, Filipe; Roebeling, Peter; Pais-Barbosa, Joaquim; Marto, MarcoThis work aims to provide a more complete characterization of coastal erosion mitigation and climate change adaptation measures by presenting a participatory approach that integrates medium- to long-term perspectives, considering simultaneously social, environmental, economic and engineering dimensions to help decision makers implement sustainable climate change adaptation (CCA) strategies. The work lists, expl...
A Web-Based Approach for Visualizing Interactive Decision Maps
Marto, Marco; Bushenkov, Vladimir; Reynolds, Keith; Borges, José; Marques, SuseteThis research expands the applicability of the Feasible Goals (FGoal) Pareto frontier multiple criteria method to display the Edgeworth–Pareto hull using interactive decision maps (IDMs). Emphasis is placed upon the development of a communication architecture to display the Pareto frontiers, which includes a client device, a web server, and a dedicated computation server implemented with sockets. A standalone a...
A Participatory and Spatial Multicriteria Decision Approach to Prioritize the A...
Marques, Marlene; Reynolds, Keith M.; Marques, Susete; Marto, Marco; Paplanus, Steve; Borges, Jose G.Forest management planning can be challenging when allocating multiple ecosystem services (ESs) to management units (MUs), given the potentially conflicting management priorities of actors. We developed a methodology to spatially allocate ESs to MUs, according to the objectives of four interest groups—civil society, forest owners, market agents, and public administration. We applied a Group Multicriteria Spatia...
Multicriteria Decision Analysis and Group Decision-Making to Select Stand-Level...
Marques, Marlene; Reynolds, Keith M.; Marto, Marco; Lakicevic, Milena; Caldas, Carlos; Murphy, Philip J.; Borges, Jose G.Forest management planning is a challenge due to the diverse criteria that need to be considered in the underlying decision-making process. This challenge becomes more complex in joint collaborative management areas (ZIF) because the decision now may involve numerous actors with diverse interests, preferences, and goals. In this research, we present an approach to identifying and quantifying the most relevant c...
Medidas de mitigação e adaptação à erosão costeira e aos efeitos das alterações...
Lima, Márcia; Moreira Alves, Filipe; Marto, Marco; Coelho, CarlosO projeto INCCA (Adaptação Integrada às Alterações Climáticas para Comunidades Resilientes) tem por objetivo promover uma abordagem que integre a adaptação às alterações climáticas e a mitigação da erosão costeira em perspetivas de curto, médio e longo-prazo. A adaptação e mitigação deve considerar as dimensões social, ambiental, económica e de engenharia, para ajudar os órgãos de decisão a conceber planos de a...
Combining tree species composition and understory coverage indicators with opti...
Botequim, Brigite; Bugalho, Miguel N.; Rodrigues, Ana Raquel; Marques, Susete; Marto, Marco; Borges, Jose G.Sustainable forest management needs to address biodiversity conservation concerns. For that purpose, forest managers need models and indicators that may help evaluate the impact of management options on biodiversity under the uncertainty of climate change scenarios. In this research we explore the potential for designing mosaics of stand-level forest management models to address biodiversity conservation object...
Bi-Level Participatory Forest Management Planning Supported by Pareto Frontier ...
Marques, Susete; Bushenkov, Vladimir; Lotov, Alexander; Marto, Marco; Borges, JoséThis 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...
Web-Based Forest Resources Management Decision Support System
Marto, Marco; Reynolds, Keith; Borges, José; Bushenkov, Vladimir; Marques, Susete; Marques, Marlen; Barreiro, Susana; Botequim, Brigite; Tomé, MargaridaIn this paper, we present a web-based decision support system (DSS)—wSADfLOR—to facilitate the access of stakeholders to tools that may contribute to enhancing forest management planning. The emphasis is on a web-based architecture and a web graphic user interface (wGUI) that may effectively support the analysis of trade-offs between ecosystem services in order to address participatory and sustainable forest ma...
Web-based forest resources management decision support system
Marto, Marco; Reynolds, Keith M.; Borges, Jose G.; Bushenkov, Vladimir; Marques, Susete; Marques, Marlene; Barreiro, Susana; Botequim, BrigiteIn this paper, we present a web-based decision support system (DSS)—wSADfLOR—to facilitate the access of stakeholders to tools that may contribute to enhancing forest management planning. The emphasis is on a web-based architecture and a web graphic user interface (wGUI) that may effectively support the analysis of trade-offs between ecosystem services in order to address participatory and sustainable forest ma...
Combining Decision Support Approaches for Optimizing the Selection of Bundles o...
Marto, Marco; Reynolds, Keith; Borges, Jose; Bushenkov, Vladimir; Marques, SuseteThis study examines the potential of combining decision support approaches to identify optimal bundles of ecosystem services in a framework characterized by multiple decision-makers. A forested landscape, Zona de Intervenção Florestal of Paiva and Entre-Douro and Sousa (ZIF_VS) in Portugal, is used to test and demonstrate this potential. The landscape extends over 14,388 ha, representing 1976 stands. The proper...