Multicriteria Analysis in Agriculture

328 Pages·2018·7.76 MB·English

by  Julio Berbel

Multiple Criteria Decision Making
Julio Berbel · Thomas Bournaris
Basil Manos · Nikolaos Matsatsinis
Davide Viaggi Editors
Multicriteria
Analysis in
Agriculture
Current Trends and Recent Applications
Multiple Criteria Decision Making
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ConstantinZopounidis
SchoolofProductionEngineeringandManagement
TechnicalUniversityofCrete
Chania
Greece
Multiple Criteria Decision Making
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Julio Berbel Thomas Bournaris Basil Manos
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Nikolaos Matsatsinis Davide Viaggi
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Multicriteria Analysis
in Agriculture
Current Trends and Recent Applications
Editors
JulioBerbel ThomasBournaris
DepartmentofAgriculturalEconomics DepartmentofAgriculturalEconomics
UniversityofCordoba AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki
Cordoba,Spain Thessaloniki,Greece
BasilManos NikolaosMatsatsinis
DepartmentofAgriculturalEconomics DecisionSupportSystemsLaboratory
AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki TechnicalUniversityofCrete
Thessaloniki,Greece Chania,Greece
DavideViaggi
DepartmentofAgriculturalandFood
Sciences
UniversityofBologna
Bologna,Italy
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Preface
Economicsisthesciencethattriestoallocatescarceresourcesforthesatisfactionof
multiple and frequently conflicting objectives. Decision-making in agriculture is
always the process that typically involves multiple criteria, especially when new
policies are applied in agriculture and the environment. Multicriteria analysis is a
methodology that considers multiple criteria simultaneously in a wide range of
concerns in complex decision-making processes by taking into account multiple
conflictingcriteria.
This book integrates 12 chapters and outlines the current trends in the use of
multicriteria analysis in agriculture by providing recent applications for modelling
agricultural decision-making. Specific case studies using multicriteria analysis as a
method for selecting multi-attribute discrete alternatives or solving multi-objective
planningproblemsarealsoconsidered.Thevolumeintendstotargetagriculturaland
environmentaleconomists,engineersandallscientistsconcernedwiththemanage-
mentofagriculturalresourcesanddecision-makinginagriculture.
In chapter “Multi-scaling Agroclimatic Classification for Decision Support
Towards Sustainable Production” a decision support system by using multicriteria
analysis combining different criteria to a utility function under a set of constraints
concerning different categories of agroclimatic, social, cultural and economic con-
ditions and to achieve an optimum agricultural production plan is developed by
conducting contemporary agroclimatic classification based on remote sensing and
geographicinformationsystem.
Chapter“ReviewofMulticriteriaMethodologiesandToolsfortheEvaluationof
the Provision of Ecosystem Services” focuses on studies that used multicriteria
decisionanalysisforanecosystemserviceassessment,attemptingtocoverarepre-
sentative sample of case studies of ecosystem service assessments through
multicriteria decision analysis. It also discusses advantages and disadvantages of
differentmethodologicalchoicesinecosystemserviceevaluation.Forthisreason,a
literaturereviewhasbeenperformedthatcoversanoverviewofvariousmethodol-
ogiesthatseektoimprovetheknowledgebaseofexistingtoolsandmethodologies
inecosystemservicesassessment.
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vi Preface
Chapter “Integrating AHP and GIS Techniques for Rural Landscape and Agri-
culturalActivitiesPlanning”aimsatprovidingsomeinsightsintotheusefulnessof
the analytic hierarchy process in the context of geographic multicriteria analysis,
applied to geographic information system techniques for rural landscape and agri-
cultural activities planning. This chapter illustrates four case studies from Tuscany
Region(Italy)wherethisapproachhasbeenapplied.
Chapter “The Use of the Analytic Network Process for the Analysis of Public
GoodsSupplyfromAgriculturalSystems:AdvancesandChallengesAhead”aimsto
review and summarize the potentials and limitations of the use of the analytic
network process in the context of the evaluation of public goods provision from
agriculturalsystems.Thechapterprovidesadescriptionandastep-by-stepexplana-
tionofthemethodandpresentsinsightsfromthreeselectedrecentpapersusingthe
analyticnetworkprocesstoanalysepublicgoodssupplyfromagriculturalsystems.
Chapter “Allocating Shadow Prices in a Multi-objective Chance Constrained
ProblemofBiodieselBlending”triestoallocateshadowpricesinamulti-objective
chance-constrainedproblemofbiodieselblending.Thechapterpresentsamodelthat
determines the optimal blend that minimizes production costs and GHG emissions
andassessestheinfluenceoftechnicalconstraintsonthedecisionobjectives.Forthis
purpose,analgorithmfortheallocationofshadowpricestotheconstituentpartsof
thecompositeobjectivefunctionwasimplemented.
Chapter “Promoting Small-Scale Biofuel Production: A Qualitative GIS-OWA
Methodology for Land Suitability Analysis of Winter Rapeseed” focuses on pro-
moting small-scale biofuel production as biofuels could be a possible solution to
promoteagriculturaldevelopmentinruralareasbyincreasingfarmincome.Asland
planningissuesarecomplexproblemswithmultipledecision-makersandcriteria,a
spatialmulticriteriaanalysismodelforsupportingdecision-makersinthesiteselec-
tionprocessforwinterrapeseedproductionisproposed.
Chapter “Multi-criteria Decision Analysis: Linear and Non-linear Optimization
of Aqueous Herbal Extracts” aims to present a multicriteria decision analysis with
linear and non-linear optimization of aqueous herbal extracts. Modelling is an
indispensable part of food production, from “farm to fork”, where it is used to
optimize the initial production of food and feed as well as in the food and feed
processing. Different particle sizes of olive leaves were used in extraction of
biologicallyactivecomponentsusingwaterasasolvent.
Chapter “Methodology and Criteria for the Allocation of Reused Water in
Agriculture” provides a methodology to support the water allocation decision,
applied to reused water. The tool has been developed for the Guadalquivir River
Basin Authority, allowing decision-makers to rank the water users asking for an
entitlementtourbanwaterforagriculturewhendemandishigherthansupply.
The objective of chapter “Simulating Farmers’ Decision-Making with a Cobb-
DouglassMAUF:AnApplicationforanEx-AntePolicyAnalysisofWaterPricing”
istoprovidemorein-depthknowledgeaboutsimulatingfarmers’behaviourbyusing
non-linearmulti-attributeutilityfunctions,developinganewnon-interactivemethod
to elicit Cobb–Douglas multi-attribute utility functions based on farmers’ actual
Preface vii
behaviourthatovercomessomeshortcomingsoftraditionaladditivemulti-attribute
utilityfunctions.
Chapter “Perceptions and Attitudes of Greek Farmers Towards Adopting Preci-
sion Agriculture: Case Study Region of Central Greece” aims to examine the
concepts of crop producers regarding the prospects that arise through the adoption
ofPrecisionAgricultureinGreece,acountrywithproblematicprimarysector,with
particularclimaticconditionsandvariedmicroclimateswhilecompetingwithcoun-
triesoflowlabourcosts.
Chapter“Multi-criteria OptimizationMethodsAppliedinAgricultural Touring”
isacomprehensivereviewofthemulti-objectivenatureofagricultural touring and
focusesonmulti-objectiveformulationsthataroseintheliteraturesofarintouring,
especially concerning tourism, and with regard to them being applied under agri-
tourismscenarios.
Finally,chapter“Life CycleAssessmentand Multi-criteria Analysis inAgricul-
ture: Synergies and Insights” outlines the integration of life cycle assessment and
multicriteria analysis methodologies and develops a complete literature review
regardingthesustainabilityoftheagriculturalsector.Inthisreview,scientificpapers
integrating life cycle assessment and different multicriteria methodologies in agri-
cultureareanalysed.
Themainlessonlearnedfromthepapersinthisbookisinthefactthattherearea
numberofemergingareas ofapplicationofmulticriteria analysis, andthisrequires
aneffortformethodologicaladaptation.Someoftheseareasactuallybringmoreand
more complex issues either due to the comprehensiveness or width of the topic
(ecosystem services, bioeconomy issues) or to the “fuzziness” of impacts
(e.g. information tools). In addition, multicriteria analysis is part of an important
process of integration of different tools, e.g. with LCA or models, as well as with
participatoryinstruments.
This seems to lead to a number of new challenges for researchers to meet the
futureneedsofpractitionersanddecision-makers.
Cordoba,Spain JulioBerbel
Thessaloniki,Greece ThomasBournaris
Thessaloniki,Greece BasilManos
Chania,Greece NikolaosMatsatsinis
Bologna,Italy DavideViaggi
Contents
Multi-scalingAgroclimaticClassificationforDecisionSupport
TowardsSustainableProduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
NicolasR.Dalezios,KostasMitrakopoulos,andBasilManos
ReviewofMulticriteriaMethodologiesandToolsfortheEvaluation
oftheProvisionofEcosystemServices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
ParthenaChatzinikolaou,DavideViaggi,andMeriRaggi
IntegratingAHPandGISTechniquesforRuralLandscape
andAgriculturalActivitiesPlanning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
MassimoRovaiandMariaAndreoli
TheUseoftheAnalyticNetworkProcessfortheAnalysisofPublic
GoodsSupplyfromAgriculturalSystems:AdvancesandChallenges
Ahead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
StefanoTargetti,AnastasioJ.Villanueva,CarlosParra-López,
andDavideViaggi
AllocatingShadowPricesinaMulti-objectiveChanceConstrained
ProblemofBiodieselBlending. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
CarlaCaldeira,LuisDias,FaustoFreire,DimitrisKremmydas,
andSteliosRozakis
PromotingSmall-ScaleBiofuelProduction:AQualitativeGIS-OWA
MethodologyforLandSuitabilityAnalysisofWinterRapeseed. . . . . . . 151
MauroViccaro,MarioCozzi,AntonellaVastola,andSeverinoRomano
Multi-criteriaDecisionAnalysis:LinearandNon-linearOptimization
ofAqueousHerbalExtracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
J.GajdošKljusurić,A.JurinjakTušek,D.Valinger,M.Benković,
andT.Jurina
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MethodologyandCriteriafortheAllocationofReusedWater
inAgriculture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
MaríaM.Borrego-Marín,L.Riesgo,andJ.Berbel
SimulatingFarmers’Decision-MakingwithaCobb-DouglassMAUF:
AnApplicationforanEx-AntePolicyAnalysisofWaterPricing. . . . . . 199
NazaretM.Montilla-López,JoséA.Gómez-Limón,
andCarlosGutiérrez-Martín
PerceptionsandAttitudesofGreekFarmersTowardsAdopting
PrecisionAgriculture:CaseStudyRegionofCentralGreece. . . . . . . . . 223
EvageliaKoutridi,OlgaChristopoulou,andMarie-NoëlleDuquenne
Multi-criteriaOptimizationMethodsAppliedinAgricultural
Touring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
KyveleConstantinaDiaremeandTheodoreTsiligiridis
LifeCycleAssessmentandMulti-criteriaAnalysisinAgriculture:
SynergiesandInsights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
EmmanouilTziolas,ThomasBournaris,BasilManos,andStefanosNastis