Multicriteria Analysis for Land-Use Management

Professor Dr P. Nijkamp has received the 1996 Spinoza Award, an annual award to honour outstanding scientific merit and to stimulate innovative future research.

• Land-use management and the path towards sustainability.- I: Problem structuring for land-use management.- Conflicts between conservation goals and land use for exotic forest plantations in South Africa.- Structuring the process of choosing rice varieties at the south of Brazil.- II: The multiple dimensions of land-use management.- Rural landscape and economic results of the farm; a multi-objective approach.- Multicriteria evaluation of sustainable agricultural land use: a case study of Lesvos.- Multicriteria evaluation methods in renewable resource management: integrated water management under drought conditions.- Assessment, evaluation and allocation of funds to infrastructure projects: the case of the road network in Lombardy (Italy).- A farm multicriteria analysis model for the economic and environmental evaluation of agricultural land use.- III: Multiple actors and multiple perspectives in land-use decisions.- Spatial conflicts in transport policies: an exploration of the perspectives of regional and local actors.- An algorithm for computing multiple attribute additive value measurement ranges under a hierarchy of the criteria: application to farm or rangeland management decisions.- Using decision panels to evaluate hydropower development projects.- Improving decision-making for land-use management: key ideas for an integrated approach based on MCA negotiation forums.- IV: Spatial information in land-use management.- Multi-criteria and multi-objective decision making for land allocation using GIS.- Map transformation and aggregation methods for spatial decision support.- Multi-criteria analysis and Geographic Information Systems: analysis of natural areas and ecological distributions.- Multicriterion planning of protected-area buffer zones: an application to Mexico’s Izta-Popo national park.- Agro-ecological zones and Resource Management Domains (RMDs) in relation to land-use planning.- V: Looking ahead.- Land-use trends in Europe: simulation, presentation and scenario evaluation of future options.- Long term comprehensive evaluation strategies for spatial planning, design and management.- List of authors.