Title | Recognizing trade-offs in multi-objective land management |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2012 |
Authors | Bradford, John B., and D’Amato Anthony |
Journal | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment |
Volume | 10 |
Pagination | 210 - 216 |
Date Published | 05/2012 |
ISSN | 1540-9295 |
Keywords | climate, forest management, northeast |
Abstract | As natural resource management and conservation goals expand and evolve, practitioners and policy makers are increasingly seeking options that optimize benefits among multiple, often contradictory objectives. Here, we describe a simple approach for quantifying the consequences of alternative management options in terms of benefits and trade-offs among multiple objectives. We examine two long-term forest management experiments that span several decades of stand (forest tree community) development and identify substantial trade-offs among carbon cycling and ecological complexity objectives. In addition to providing improved understanding of the long-term consequences of various management options, the results of these experiments show that positive benefits resulting from some management options are often associated with large trade-offs among individual objectives. The approach to understanding benefits and trade-offs presented here provides a simple yet flexible framework for quantitatively assessing the consequences of different management options. |
URL | http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/110031 |
DOI | 10.1890/110031 |
Recognizing trade-offs in multi-objective land management
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