@article{Zendehdel:44206,
      recid = {44206},
      author = {Zendehdel, Kamran and Rademaker, Michael and De Baets,  Bernard and Van Huylenbroeck, Guido},
      title = {Increasing environmental sustainability by incorporating  stakeholders' intensities of preferences into the policy  formation},
      address = {2008},
      number = {725-2016-49354},
      pages = {16},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {In this paper a tractable methodology is presented to  improve environmental
sustainability by incorporating  stakeholders’ intensities of preferences into the  decision
making process. The environmental decision making  will be controversial when there is a
complex issue at  hand. The difficulty comes up as stakeholders cannot see  how their
preferences are taken into account in the policy  making process. To reduce this
controversy, we propose a  qualitative method to elicit stakeholders’ intensities  of
preferences towards a set of environmental services.  Subsequently, the elicited intensities
of preferences are  aggregated by a mathematical approach on each single  criterion.
Finally, a multi-criteria approach is applied to  use the aggregated values across all criteria
to provide  the analyst with a rank order of existing alternative  plans. In this way, the
stakeholders are able to verify  that their opinion is taken into account, even if it  is
contrary to the majority voice. The natural resources  manager will benefit from an
increased insight into the  prevalent opinion on each of the criteria through the  supplied
social intensities of preferences, enabling a more  easily communicated justification of the
final decision,  and an augmented tractability of the decision making  process.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/44206},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.44206},
}