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Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in marine protected area resource management: a review of methods

Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is a general approach that has been applied to a wide range of natural resource management situations. Firstly, this paper aims to provide a critical review of MCDM methods applied to Marine Protected Area (MPA) and other natural resource management. The review...

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Main Authors: Nair, Madhavan Balan, Ramachandran, Sridar, Shuib, Ahmad, Mohammad Afandi, Syamsul Herman
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48386/1/Multi-criteria%20decision%20making%20%28MCDM%29%20in%20marine%20protected%20area%20resource%20management%20a%20review%20of%20methods.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.483862016-09-14T05:11:34Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48386/ Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in marine protected area resource management: a review of methods Nair, Madhavan Balan Ramachandran, Sridar Shuib, Ahmad Mohammad Afandi, Syamsul Herman Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is a general approach that has been applied to a wide range of natural resource management situations. Firstly, this paper aims to provide a critical review of MCDM methods applied to Marine Protected Area (MPA) and other natural resource management. The review seeks to layout the nature of the models, their inherent strengths and limitations. The second purpose is to describe new MCDM paradigms aimed at addressing the inherent complexity of managing coastal ecosystems, particularly with respect to multiple criteria, multi-stakeholders, and lack of information. Comments about, and critical analysis of, the limitations of traditional models are made to point out the need for, and propose a call to, a new way of thinking about MCDM as they are applied to MPA and natural resource management planning. 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48386/1/Multi-criteria%20decision%20making%20%28MCDM%29%20in%20marine%20protected%20area%20resource%20management%20a%20review%20of%20methods.pdf Nair, Madhavan Balan and Ramachandran, Sridar and Shuib, Ahmad and Mohammad Afandi, Syamsul Herman (2013) Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in marine protected area resource management: a review of methods. In: 1st Annual PSU Phuket International Conference 2012, 10-12 Jan. 2013, Prince of Songkla University, Phuket, Thailand. .
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description Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is a general approach that has been applied to a wide range of natural resource management situations. Firstly, this paper aims to provide a critical review of MCDM methods applied to Marine Protected Area (MPA) and other natural resource management. The review seeks to layout the nature of the models, their inherent strengths and limitations. The second purpose is to describe new MCDM paradigms aimed at addressing the inherent complexity of managing coastal ecosystems, particularly with respect to multiple criteria, multi-stakeholders, and lack of information. Comments about, and critical analysis of, the limitations of traditional models are made to point out the need for, and propose a call to, a new way of thinking about MCDM as they are applied to MPA and natural resource management planning.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Nair, Madhavan Balan
Ramachandran, Sridar
Shuib, Ahmad
Mohammad Afandi, Syamsul Herman
spellingShingle Nair, Madhavan Balan
Ramachandran, Sridar
Shuib, Ahmad
Mohammad Afandi, Syamsul Herman
Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in marine protected area resource management: a review of methods
author_facet Nair, Madhavan Balan
Ramachandran, Sridar
Shuib, Ahmad
Mohammad Afandi, Syamsul Herman
author_sort Nair, Madhavan Balan
title Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in marine protected area resource management: a review of methods
title_short Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in marine protected area resource management: a review of methods
title_full Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in marine protected area resource management: a review of methods
title_fullStr Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in marine protected area resource management: a review of methods
title_full_unstemmed Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in marine protected area resource management: a review of methods
title_sort multi-criteria decision making (mcdm) in marine protected area resource management: a review of methods
publishDate 2013
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48386/1/Multi-criteria%20decision%20making%20%28MCDM%29%20in%20marine%20protected%20area%20resource%20management%20a%20review%20of%20methods.pdf
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