Hermans Caroline, Erickson Jon, Noordewier Tom, Sheldon Amy, Kline Mike
US Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.
J Environ Manage. 2007 Sep;84(4):534-46. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.07.013. Epub 2006 Oct 9.
Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) provides a well-established family of decision tools to aid stakeholder groups in arriving at collective decisions. MCDA can also function as a framework for the social learning process, serving as an educational aid in decision problems characterized by a high level of public participation. In this paper, the framework and results of a structured decision process using the outranking MCDA methodology preference ranking organization method of enrichment evaluation (PROMETHEE) are presented. PROMETHEE is used to frame multi-stakeholder discussions of river management alternatives for the Upper White River of Central Vermont, in the northeastern United States. Stakeholders met over 10 months to create a shared vision of an ideal river and its services to communities, develop a list of criteria by which to evaluate river management alternatives, and elicit preferences to rank and compare individual and group preferences. The MCDA procedure helped to frame a group process that made stakeholder preferences explicit and substantive discussions about long-term river management possible.
多标准决策分析（MCDA）提供了一系列成熟的决策工具，以帮助利益相关者群体做出集体决策。MCDA还可以作为社会学习过程的框架，在以高度公众参与为特征的决策问题中作为一种教育辅助手段。本文介绍了使用优势多标准决策分析方法——偏好排序组织法（PROMETHEE）进行的结构化决策过程的框架和结果。PROMETHEE被用于构建美国东北部佛蒙特州中部白河上游河流管理替代方案的多利益相关者讨论。利益相关者在10个月的时间里会面，以创建对理想河流及其为社区提供的服务的共同愿景，制定评估河流管理替代方案的标准清单，并引出偏好以对个人和群体偏好进行排名和比较。多标准决策分析程序有助于构建一个群体过程，使利益相关者的偏好明确化，并使关于长期河流管理的实质性讨论成为可能。
