Zbornik Matice srpske za prirodne nauke 2015 Issue 128, Pages: 99-107
https://doi.org/10.2298/ZMSPN1528099L
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Multi-criteria approval for evaluating landscape management strategies (Case study: Fruška Gora National Park)
Lakićević Milena D.
(Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Water Management, Novi Sad)
Srđević Bojan M. (Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Water Management, Novi Sad)
Srđević Zorica B.
(Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Water Management, Novi Sad)
This paper deals with the problem of multi-criteria evaluation of four
management strategies for Fruška Gora National Park. The criteria set was
defined in accordance with the IUCN guidelines for management of national
parks. Four strategies were evaluated by testing preference intensities for
each alternative with the respect to each criterion. Alternatives with
preference above the approval threshold were approved, and a multi-criteria
approval matrix was generated. According to the matrix, the most suitable
management strategy was identified. It implies an intense protection of
natural resources and landscape diversity in the national park by applying
bio-engineering measures. This illustrative example proved that
multi-criteria approval can be considered as a good decision support tool
when there is no need for a deeper insight into cardinal values of criteria
weights and alternatives, or if the decision maker has to select few from
many of alternatives to reduce the decision problem. For a more precise
analysis, it is recommended to combine multi-criteria approval with other
decision support tools, and future studies might deal with this problem in
order to define an alternative framework for decision making in landscape
management.
Keywords: decision making, management strategy, multi-criteria approval, Fruška Gora National Park
Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 174003: Theory
and application of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) in multi-criteria
decision making under conditions of risk and uncertainty (individual and
group context