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A meta-decision-analysis approach to structure operational and legitimate environmental policies - With an application to wetland prioritization

Choulak, Mourad; Marage, Damien; Gisbert, Manon; Paris, Mélanie; Meinard, Yves (2019), A meta-decision-analysis approach to structure operational and legitimate environmental policies - With an application to wetland prioritization, Science of The Total Environment, 655, p. 384-394. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.202

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Date
2019
Journal name
Science of The Total Environment
Volume
655
Publisher
Elsevier
Pages
384-394
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Choulak, Mourad
Laboratoire d'analyse et modélisation de systèmes pour l'aide à la décision [LAMSADE]
Marage, Damien cc
Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces [LADYSS]
Gisbert, Manon
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Paris, Mélanie
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Meinard, Yves
Laboratoire d'analyse et modélisation de systèmes pour l'aide à la décision [LAMSADE]
Abstract (EN)
Environmental policies are implemented in complex socio-economic settings, where numerous stakeholders hold different and potentially conflicting values. In addition to being scientifically well-founded, the experts' recommendations on which these policies are based therefore also need to be operational and legitimate.Multi-criteria decision-analysis (MCDA) is often used to solve management problems, but studies in the literature rarely place importance on the way stakeholders perceive researchers' interventions (which implies a lack of legitimacy), and most managers lack the skills to reproduce routinely the operations involved (which implies a lack of operationality). We use MCDA methodology in a different approach: “meta-decision-analysis” (Meta-DA). As researchers, instead of striving to identify the best way for us to solve managers' problems, we identify the actors (the decision-aid providers, DAPs) who are best placed to help managers, and we provide DAPs with the necessary tools.
Subjects / Keywords
Environmental policy; Prioritization; Multi-criteria decision-analysis; Legitimacy; Wetlands; Knowledge-implementation gaps