Choice set formation for outdoor destinations: The role of motivations and preference discrimination in site selection for the management of public expenditures on protected areas

AbstractI address a contentious element in forest property relations to illustrate the role of ownership in protecting and expanding of forest cover by examining the extent to which rural communities may legally own forests. The premise is that whilst state-owned protected areas have contributed enormously to forest survival, this has been insufficiently successful to justify the mass dispossession of customary land-owning communities this has entailed. Further, I argue that state co-option of community lands is unwarranted. Rural communities on all continents ably demonstrate the will and capacity to conserve forests – provided their customary ownership is legally recognized. I explore the property rights reforms now enabling this. The replication potential of community protected forestlands is great enough to deserve flagship status in global commitments to expand forest including in the upcoming new Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

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A Case Study on Experiment Site Selection for PV Energy Generation Forecast

2020 International Computer Symposium (ICS) ◽

10.1109/ics51289.2020.00098 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Huang Yu Hsiang ◽

Tseng Sheng Yuan ◽

Ping Wang ◽

Lin Wen Hui ◽

Lin Hsiao Chung

Keyword(s):

Site Selection ◽

Energy Generation ◽

Selection For

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On Laplacian energy of picture fuzzy graphs in site selection problem

Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems ◽

10.3233/jifs-202131 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Mahima Poonia ◽

Rakesh Kumar Bajaj

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Site Selection ◽

Upper Bounds ◽

Selection Problem ◽

Hydropower Plant ◽

Fuzzy Graph ◽

Fuzzy Information ◽

Fuzzy Graphs ◽

Laplacian Energy ◽

Selection For

In the present work, the adjacency matrix, the energy and the Laplacian energy for a picture fuzzy graph/directed graph have been introduced along with their lower and the upper bounds. Further, in the selection problem of decision making, a methodology for the ranking of the available alternatives has been presented by utilizing the picture fuzzy graph and its energy/Laplacian energy. For the shake of demonstrating the implementation of the introduced methodology, the task of site selection for the hydropower plant has been carried out as an application. The originality of the introduced approach, comparative remarks, advantageous features and limitations have also been studied in contrast with intuitionistic fuzzy and Pythagorean fuzzy information.

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Communities ready for takeoff

Politics and the Life Sciences ◽

10.1017/pls.2017.6 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

pp. 14-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sanne A. M. Rijkhoff ◽

Season A. Hoard ◽

Michael J. Gaffney ◽

Paul M. Smith

Keyword(s):

Site Selection ◽

Science Literature ◽

Location Selection ◽

Community Assets ◽

Selection Decisions ◽

The Social ◽

Selection For ◽

Insight Into ◽

New Infrastructure ◽

Take All

Although much of the social science literature supports the importance of community assets for success in many policy areas, these assets are often overlooked when selecting communities for new infrastructure facilities. Extensive collaboration is crucial for the success of environmental and economic projects, yet it often is not adequately addressed when making siting decisions for new projects. This article develops a social asset framework that includes social, creative, and human capital to inform site-selection decisions. This framework is applied to the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance project to assess community suitability for biofuel-related developments. This framework is the first to take all necessary community assets into account, providing insight into successful site selection beyond current models. The framework not only serves as a model for future biorefinery projects but also guides tasks that depend on informed location selection for success.

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