Integrating Stakeholder Preferences and GIS-Based Multicriteria Analysis to Identify Forest Landscape Restoration Priorities

摘要: A pressing question that arises during the planning of an ecological restoration process is: where to restore first? Answering this is a complex task; it requires multidimensional approach consider economic constrains and preferences stakeholders. Being problem spatial nature, may be explored effectively through Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) performed in Geographical Information System (GIS) environment. The proposed based on definition weighting multiple criteria for evaluating land suitability. An MCDA-based methodology was used identify priority areas Forest Landscape Restoration Upper Mixtec region, Oaxaca (Mexico), one most degraded Latin America. Socioeconomic environmental were selected evaluated. opinions four different stakeholder groups considered: general public, academic, Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) governmental officers. these spatially modeled their priorities. final result map identifies preferable sites restoration, resources efforts should concentrated. MCDA proved very useful tool collective planning, when alternative have identified prioritized guide work.