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Abstract
Measures for rural development should be
adapted to the specific regional conditions and national
programs should allow for different regional priorities.
However, decision-making for policy measures often
takes place under special conditions with many
concerned actors, unstructured decision problems and
time pressure. These conditions, decision-makers in
administrations and institutions are faced with, make
the formation of policy-measures for rural development
a complex matter. Thus, there is the question arising
how decision-makers can be supported in setting
priorities for allocating budgets for policy measures
among regions. Recently, multi criteria decision-making
approaches are discussed to tackle these kinds of
decision problems. We show exemplarily for the Polish
program of rural development, how decision-making
could be supported using a multi-objective
programming approach. Different preferences of actors
can be considered explicitly by visualizing “trade-offs”
and an interactive use of the approach. For example, a
political "equity" objective is implemented as a
constraint in the programming approach, restricting the
budget differences between regions to a defined level. By
a parameterization of the bound for budget differences,
the "trade-off" between three objectives is displayed
and evaluated. Using the exemplary programming
approach, it is shown that the objective values of the two
main objectives of the PROW decline, when the budget
differences between regions are restricted for pursuing a
political "equity" objective.