Criteria and Indicators to Define Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam
Balancing biodiversity conservation with land use for agricultural production is a major societal challenge. Conservation activities must be prioritized since funds and resources for conservation are insufficient in the context of current threats, and conservation competes with other societal priori...
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| author | Xuan Dinh Vu Elmar Csaplovics Christopher Marrs Trung Thanh Nguyen |
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| description | Balancing biodiversity conservation with land use for agricultural production is a major societal challenge. Conservation activities must be prioritized since funds and resources for conservation are insufficient in the context of current threats, and conservation competes with other societal priorities. In order to contribute to conservation priority-setting literature, we applied an environmental model, Pressure–State–Response (PSR), to develop a set of criteria for identifying priority areas for biodiversity conservation in Vietnam. Our empirical data have been compiled from 185 respondents and categorized into three groups: Governmental Administration and Organizations, Universities and Research Institutions, and Protected Areas. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) theory was used to identify the weight of all criteria. Our results show that the priority levels for biodiversity conservation identified by these three factors are 41% for “Pressure”, 26% for “State”, and 33% for “Response”. Based on these three factors, seven criteria and seventeen indicators were developed to determine priority areas for biodiversity conservation. Besides, our study also reveals that the groups of Governmental Administration and organizations and Protected Areas put a focus on the “Pressure” factor, while the group of Universities and Research Institutions emphasized the importance of the “Response” factor in the evaluation process. We suggest that these criteria and indicators be used to identify priority areas for biodiversity conservation in Vietnam. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f6ebdafc2a3e475fbbcbddcc49cb19cf2023-11-23T16:15:49ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072022-08-01139134110.3390/f13091341Criteria and Indicators to Define Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation in VietnamXuan Dinh Vu0Elmar Csaplovics1Christopher Marrs2Trung Thanh Nguyen3College of Land Management and Rural Development, Vietnam National University of Forestry, Hanoi 13417, VietnamInstitute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Technical University of Dresden, 01069 Dresden, GermanyInstitute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Technical University of Dresden, 01069 Dresden, GermanyInstitute of Environmental Economics and World Trade, Leibniz University of Hannover, 30167 Hannover, GermanyBalancing biodiversity conservation with land use for agricultural production is a major societal challenge. Conservation activities must be prioritized since funds and resources for conservation are insufficient in the context of current threats, and conservation competes with other societal priorities. In order to contribute to conservation priority-setting literature, we applied an environmental model, Pressure–State–Response (PSR), to develop a set of criteria for identifying priority areas for biodiversity conservation in Vietnam. Our empirical data have been compiled from 185 respondents and categorized into three groups: Governmental Administration and Organizations, Universities and Research Institutions, and Protected Areas. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) theory was used to identify the weight of all criteria. Our results show that the priority levels for biodiversity conservation identified by these three factors are 41% for “Pressure”, 26% for “State”, and 33% for “Response”. Based on these three factors, seven criteria and seventeen indicators were developed to determine priority areas for biodiversity conservation. Besides, our study also reveals that the groups of Governmental Administration and organizations and Protected Areas put a focus on the “Pressure” factor, while the group of Universities and Research Institutions emphasized the importance of the “Response” factor in the evaluation process. We suggest that these criteria and indicators be used to identify priority areas for biodiversity conservation in Vietnam.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/9/1341analytic hierarchy processbiodiversity conservationcondition–pressure–response modelpriority areasVietnam |
| spellingShingle | Xuan Dinh Vu Elmar Csaplovics Christopher Marrs Trung Thanh Nguyen Criteria and Indicators to Define Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam Forests analytic hierarchy process biodiversity conservation condition–pressure–response model priority areas Vietnam |
| title | Criteria and Indicators to Define Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam |
| title_full | Criteria and Indicators to Define Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam |
| title_fullStr | Criteria and Indicators to Define Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam |
| title_full_unstemmed | Criteria and Indicators to Define Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam |
| title_short | Criteria and Indicators to Define Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam |
| title_sort | criteria and indicators to define priority areas for biodiversity conservation in vietnam |
| topic | analytic hierarchy process biodiversity conservation condition–pressure–response model priority areas Vietnam |
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