Mainstreaming Sustainable Decision-making for Ecosystems: Integrating Ecological and Socio-economic Targets within a Decision Support System

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Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Rute
Data de Publicação: 2014
Outros Autores: Cunha, Maria da Conceição, Roseta-Palma, Catarina, Marques, João Carlos
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/46682
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40710-014-0006-x
Resumo: The authors acknowledge the publisher in granting permission for making post-print version available in open access institutional repository.
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spelling Mainstreaming Sustainable Decision-making for Ecosystems: Integrating Ecological and Socio-economic Targets within a Decision Support SystemWater quality improvementsWFDDPSIR frameworkEcosystem servicesMULINO-MCADecision-support systemThe authors acknowledge the publisher in granting permission for making post-print version available in open access institutional repository.Ecosystem sustainable management, and the underlying decision-making process, generally requires the analysis of ecological, social and economic information, integrating both value judgements and policy goals. Since this process can be regarded as complex and tricky, natural resource management requires a well-structured and transparent decision-making process. In this regard, it is necessary to search for and implement sets of measures which can effectively solve emerging problems. Based on the assumption that decisions concerning the management of watersheds may imply trade-offs between their different functions, the intent was to test if software tools, such as MULINO, could be used to enhance multi-level governance of ecosystems. To achieve this, the DPSIR and MCA were incorporated, to analyze and quantify the explicit trade-offs between several types of services provided by estuarine ecosystems and stakeholder objectives. The Mondego Estuary (Portugal) was used as case study. This system is under constant pressure, from both natural and anthropogenic drivers. Urban expansion and tourism were identified as having a strong impact on system development, while agriculture, although declining, had a determinant role in the system’s status. The study evaluated potential alternatives focusing on the water quality improvement goals that could be designed for the system. The MCA ranked several alternatives and pinpointed as the ʺbestʺ option the alternative that combines buffer zones, eco-tourism enhancement, wastewater treatment plant development, the Murraceira trademark and bivalves bio-control. This analysis allowed a simplification of several management objectives; nonetheless, further tests are still required to understand the real connection between these outcomes and decision-makers.Springer2014-03info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10316/46682http://hdl.handle.net/10316/46682https://doi.org/10.1007/s40710-014-0006-xeng2198-7491https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40710-014-0006-xPinto, RuteCunha, Maria da ConceiçãoRoseta-Palma, CatarinaMarques, João Carlosinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2021-07-19T11:54:14Zoai:estudogeral.uc.pt:10316/46682Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T20:57:18.318480Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Mainstreaming Sustainable Decision-making for Ecosystems: Integrating Ecological and Socio-economic Targets within a Decision Support System
title Mainstreaming Sustainable Decision-making for Ecosystems: Integrating Ecological and Socio-economic Targets within a Decision Support System
spellingShingle Mainstreaming Sustainable Decision-making for Ecosystems: Integrating Ecological and Socio-economic Targets within a Decision Support System
Pinto, Rute
Water quality improvements
WFD
DPSIR framework
Ecosystem services
MULINO-MCA
Decision-support system
title_short Mainstreaming Sustainable Decision-making for Ecosystems: Integrating Ecological and Socio-economic Targets within a Decision Support System
title_full Mainstreaming Sustainable Decision-making for Ecosystems: Integrating Ecological and Socio-economic Targets within a Decision Support System
title_fullStr Mainstreaming Sustainable Decision-making for Ecosystems: Integrating Ecological and Socio-economic Targets within a Decision Support System
title_full_unstemmed Mainstreaming Sustainable Decision-making for Ecosystems: Integrating Ecological and Socio-economic Targets within a Decision Support System
title_sort Mainstreaming Sustainable Decision-making for Ecosystems: Integrating Ecological and Socio-economic Targets within a Decision Support System
author Pinto, Rute
author_facet Pinto, Rute
Cunha, Maria da Conceição
Roseta-Palma, Catarina
Marques, João Carlos
author_role author
author2 Cunha, Maria da Conceição
Roseta-Palma, Catarina
Marques, João Carlos
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Pinto, Rute
Cunha, Maria da Conceição
Roseta-Palma, Catarina
Marques, João Carlos
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Water quality improvements
WFD
DPSIR framework
Ecosystem services
MULINO-MCA
Decision-support system
topic Water quality improvements
WFD
DPSIR framework
Ecosystem services
MULINO-MCA
Decision-support system
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