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Pascual Fernández Martínez
Department of Applied Economics I and History and Economic Institutions, UNESCO UNED-URJC Chair in Water and Peace, URJC, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Campus of Vicálvaro, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Tulipan, Móstoles, 28933 Madrid, Spain

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Review
Published: 30 April 2021 in Land
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This paper presents a comprehensive review of the application of Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) approaches exclusively to water-related freshwater ecosystem services. MCDM analysis has been useful in solving conflicts and it works well in this framework, given the serious conflicts historically associated with water use and the protection of freshwater ecosystems around the world. In this study, we present a review of 150 papers that proposed the use of MCDM-based methods for the social, economic, or ecological planning and management of water ecosystem services over the period 2000–2020. The analysis accounts for six elements: ecosystem service type, method, participation, biogeographical realm, waterbody type, and problem to solve. A Chi-square test was used to identify dependence between these elements. Studies involving the participation of stakeholder groups adopted an integrated approach to analysing sustainable water management, considering provisioning, regulating, and cultural services. However, such studies have been in decline since 2015, in favour of non-participatory studies that were strictly focused on ecological and provisioning issues. Although this reflects greater concern for the health of freshwater ecosystems, it is a long way removed from the essence of ecosystem services, which entails an integrated approach to the interrelationships between hydrology, landscapes, ecology, and humans.

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Mónica de Castro-Pardo; Pascual Fernández Martínez; Amelia Pérez Zabaleta; João Azevedo. Dealing with Water Conflicts: A Comprehensive Review of MCDM Approaches to Manage Freshwater Ecosystem Services. Land 2021, 10, 469 .

AMA Style

Mónica de Castro-Pardo, Pascual Fernández Martínez, Amelia Pérez Zabaleta, João Azevedo. Dealing with Water Conflicts: A Comprehensive Review of MCDM Approaches to Manage Freshwater Ecosystem Services. Land. 2021; 10 (5):469.

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Mónica de Castro-Pardo; Pascual Fernández Martínez; Amelia Pérez Zabaleta; João Azevedo. 2021. "Dealing with Water Conflicts: A Comprehensive Review of MCDM Approaches to Manage Freshwater Ecosystem Services." Land 10, no. 5: 469.

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Published: 09 July 2020 in Land
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Sustainable Rural Development is essential to maintain active local communities and avoid depopulation and degradation of rural areas. Proper assessment of development in these territories is necessary to improve decision-making and to inform public policy, while ensuring biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services supply. Rural areas include high ecological value systems but the vulnerability of environmental components in development indicators has not been sufficiently pinpointed. The main objective of this work was to propose a new sustainable rural development composite indicator (nSRDI) while considering an environmental dimension indicator based on ecosystem services vulnerability and social and economic dimension indicators established using a sequentially Benefit of the Doubt-Data Envelopment Analysis (BoD-DEA) model. It aimed also to test effects of weighting methods on nSRDI. The composite indicator was applied to 10 regions (comarcas) in the Huesca province, Spain, producing a ranking of regions accordingly. The indicator was further tested through the analysis of the effect of an equal and optimum weighting method on scores and rankings of regions. Results showed substantial differences in nSRDI scores/rankings when vulnerability was added to the process, suggesting that the environmental dimension and the perspective from which it is conceived and applied matters when addressing sustainable rural development.

ACS Style

Pascual Fernández Martínez; Mónica De Castro-Pardo; Víctor Martín Barroso; João C. Azevedo. Assessing Sustainable Rural Development Based on Ecosystem Services Vulnerability. Land 2020, 9, 222 .

AMA Style

Pascual Fernández Martínez, Mónica De Castro-Pardo, Víctor Martín Barroso, João C. Azevedo. Assessing Sustainable Rural Development Based on Ecosystem Services Vulnerability. Land. 2020; 9 (7):222.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Pascual Fernández Martínez; Mónica De Castro-Pardo; Víctor Martín Barroso; João C. Azevedo. 2020. "Assessing Sustainable Rural Development Based on Ecosystem Services Vulnerability." Land 9, no. 7: 222.