A Multiple Criteria Approach for Negotiating Ecosystem Services Supply Targets and Forest Owners' Programs
Land tenure heterogeneity may be an obstacle to forested landscape-level management planning and the provision of ecosystem services. This research focused on the potential of combining participatory workshops and multiple criteria decision methods (MCDMs) to support the development
and negotiation of targets for the supply of ecosystem services and help design the management plan needed to meet those targets. We describe an application to two forested landscapes with several ownership types in Portugal. The approach encompassed the design of two workshops involving more
than 40 stakeholders (forests owners, the forest service, the forest industry, local municipalities and other nongovernmental organizations). The list of ecosystem services included carbon stocks, cork, pine cones, and forest inventory at the end of the planning horizon as well as volume flows
from a range of forest species. Results demonstrated the potential of MCDM tools to help individual forest stakeholders set and adjust ecosystem services target levels. They further demonstrated the potential of MCDMs to facilitate the negotiation of these targets by the stakeholders and the
reaching of meaningful solutions. Finally, they demonstrated that these tools provide valuable information to combine the negotiations of both targets and behaviors and programs needed to attain them.
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Keywords: collaborative planning; ecosystem services; forest management programs; forest owners; group decisionmaking; land tenure; multiple criteria decision methods
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: February 17, 2017
This article was made available online on December 29, 2016 as a Fast Track article with title: "A Multiple Criteria Approach for Negotiating Ecosystem Services Supply Targets and Forest Owners' Programs".