Exploring Expedient Protected Area for Ecosystem Services: Decision-Making Method with a New Algorithm

From the point of view of ecological environment protection, the concepts of biodiversity, carbon sequestration, water production and culture have been selected to evaluate the ecosystem services of Guanzhong-Tianshui Economic Zone. A multi-criterion decision-making method is applied to select the e...

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Main Authors: Yumeng Zhang, Jing Li, Zixiang Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-10-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/20/5599
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Summary:From the point of view of ecological environment protection, the concepts of biodiversity, carbon sequestration, water production and culture have been selected to evaluate the ecosystem services of Guanzhong-Tianshui Economic Zone. A multi-criterion decision-making method is applied to select the expedient protected area of the study area, which can provide abundant natural resources and a basis for the maintenance of ecological balance. In this paper, by setting up different risk values and weights to calculate OWA (ordered weighted averaging) operator, the scenario of the expedient protected area with the highest tradeoff value is selected. This study analyzes and evaluates ecosystem services in the study area by combining natural and human factors, and the OWA operator is used to balance the trade-offs between different ecosystem services, as well as select the expedient protected areas, which provides a reference for improving ecosystem services in the study area.
ISSN:2071-1050