Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the NetherlandsIP1343456083817.1
Springer Netherlands
Dordrecht
10784
1567-9764
1573-1553
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
Int Environ Agreements
Environment
Political Science
Environmental Economics
Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
Environmental Management
Nature Conservation
11
11
4
2
2
6
2011
4
24
2011
4
23
2011
5
2011
Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
2011
9125
10.1007/s10784-010-9125-7
2
Multicriteria Decision Aid to support Multilateral Environmental Agreements in assessing international forestry projects
Original Paper
117
137
2010
3
10
2010
3
10
2010
4
10
The Author(s)
2010
Rocío
Dánica
Cóndor
+39-0650072564
+39-0650072657
rociocondor@libero.it
Antonino
Scarelli
Riccardo
Valentini
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ambiente Forestale e delle sue Risorse (DISAFRI)
Università degli Studi della Tuscia
Via S. Camillo de Lellis snc
01100
Viterbo
Italy
Dipartimento di Ecologia ed Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile (DECOS)
Università degli Studi della Tuscia
Via S. G. Decollato 1
01100
Viterbo
Italy
Abstract
The three Rio Conventions—the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification—face the challenge to create synergies at different levels. The objective of this article is to describe how we have assessed synergies between the Rio Conventions at the project level in the forest sector. Since the complexity of the decision problem is high, we adopted the Multicriteria Decision Aid approach, which can provide a broad insight into the decision problem and find a compromise solution to a problem with multidimensional and conflicting criteria including social, economic and environmental features. The ELECTRE TRI model was used for assessing synergies at the project level, and has been a useful tool to quantify the performance of afforestation and reforestation projects into three categories (synergistic, reasonably synergistic, and not synergistic). For the first time, afforestation and reforestation projects have been assessed in a comprehensive way through decision criteria that reflect global and local interests using a non-compensatory multicriteria method.
Keywords
Forestry projects
Multiple criteria
Multilateral environmental agreements
Rio conventions
Abbreviations
AHTEG
Ad hoc technical expert group
A/R
Afforestation/Reforestation
CBD
Convention on Biological Diversity
CDM
Clean Development Mechanism
DM
Decision maker
GEF
Global Environmental Facility
IAS
Institute of Advanced Studies
JLG
Joint Liaison Group
MA
Millennium ecosystem assessment
MAUT
Multiple attribute utility theory
MCDA
Multicriteria Decision Aid
MEAs
Multilateral Environmental Agreements
NCSA
National capacity self assessment
PDDs
Project design documents
UNEP
United Nations Environmental Programme
UNFCCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNCCD
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
UNU
United Nations University
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Springer Netherlands
Dordrecht
10784
1567-9764
1573-1553
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
Int Environ Agreements
Environment
Political Science
Environmental Economics
Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
Environmental Management
Nature Conservation
11
11
4
2
2
6
2011
4
24
2011
4
23
2011
5
2011
Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
2011
9125
10.1007/s10784-010-9125-7
2
Multicriteria Decision Aid to support Multilateral Environmental Agreements in assessing international forestry projects
Original Paper
117
137
2010
3
10
2010
3
10
2010
4
10
The Author(s)
2010
Rocío
Dánica
Cóndor
+39-0650072564
+39-0650072657
rociocondor@libero.it
Antonino
Scarelli
Riccardo
Valentini
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ambiente Forestale e delle sue Risorse (DISAFRI)
Università degli Studi della Tuscia
Via S. Camillo de Lellis snc
01100
Viterbo
Italy
Dipartimento di Ecologia ed Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile (DECOS)
Università degli Studi della Tuscia
Via S. G. Decollato 1
01100
Viterbo
Italy
Abstract
The three Rio Conventions—the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification—face the challenge to create synergies at different levels. The objective of this article is to describe how we have assessed synergies between the Rio Conventions at the project level in the forest sector. Since the complexity of the decision problem is high, we adopted the Multicriteria Decision Aid approach, which can provide a broad insight into the decision problem and find a compromise solution to a problem with multidimensional and conflicting criteria including social, economic and environmental features. The ELECTRE TRI model was used for assessing synergies at the project level, and has been a useful tool to quantify the performance of afforestation and reforestation projects into three categories (synergistic, reasonably synergistic, and not synergistic). For the first time, afforestation and reforestation projects have been assessed in a comprehensive way through decision criteria that reflect global and local interests using a non-compensatory multicriteria method.
Keywords
Forestry projects
Multiple criteria
Multilateral environmental agreements
Rio conventions
Abbreviations
AHTEG
Ad hoc technical expert group
A/R
Afforestation/Reforestation
CBD
Convention on Biological Diversity
CDM
Clean Development Mechanism
DM
Decision maker
GEF
Global Environmental Facility
IAS
Institute of Advanced Studies
JLG
Joint Liaison Group
MA
Millennium ecosystem assessment
MAUT
Multiple attribute utility theory
MCDA
Multicriteria Decision Aid
MEAs
Multilateral Environmental Agreements
NCSA
National capacity self assessment
PDDs
Project design documents
UNEP
United Nations Environmental Programme
UNFCCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNCCD
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
UNU
United Nations University
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