XI WORLD FORESTRY CONGRESS Antalya, Turkey, 13 to 22 October 1997
	VOLUME 3, TOPIC 12 SUMMARIES OF VOLUNTARY PAPERS MULTICRITERIA DECISION-MAKING IN AFFORESTATION BY THE ELECTRE METHOD: AN EXAMPLE FROM TURKEY Ahmet Türker1 It is estimated that about 8 million ha of degraded forest land in Turkey has to be restored by afforestation. It is necessary to determine an order of priorities, because it is impossible to carry out this task simultaneously, throughout the country. Since forests provide more than one benefit, it is necessary to take into account all of the benefits in each area when making decisions about the relation of afforestation locations, techniques and species. This paper describes a multicriteria decision-making process using the ELECTRE method that takes into account eight environmental, social and economic criteria without having to assign money values in choosing between 12 alternative plantation options. Keywords: Afforestation, investments, decision-making, multiple criteria, alternative. 1 University of Istanbul, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forestry Economics 80895 Bahçeköy/Istanbul, Turkey Previous Section Next Section   Download the Pdf file for this topic (332 K) What is a Pdf file ?   Back to Top of the page
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