A case study of resources management planning with multiple objectives and projects |
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Authors: | David L Peterson David G Silsbee Daniel L Schmoldt |
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Institution: | (1) National Biological Survey, Cooperative Park Studies Unit College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, AR-10, 98195 Seattle, Washington, USA;(2) USDA Forest Service Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Brooks Forest Products Center Virginia Tech, 24061-0503 Blacksburg, Virginia, USA |
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Abstract: | Each National Park Service unit in the United States produces a resources management plan (RMP) every four years or less.
The plans commit budgets and personnel to specific projects for four years, but they are prepared with little quantitative
and analytical rigor and without formal decision-making tools. We have previously described a multiple objective planning
process for inventory and monitoring programs (Schmoldt and others 1994). To test the applicability of that process for the
more general needs of resources management planning, we conducted an exercise on the Olympic National Park (NP) in Washington
State, USA. Eight projects were selected as typical of those considered in RMPs and five members of the Olympic NP staff used
the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to prioritize the eight projects with respect to their implicit management objectives.
By altering management priorities for the park, three scenarios were generated. All three contained some similarities in rankings
for the eight projects, as well as some differences. Mathematical allocations of money and people differed among these scenarios
and differed substantially from what the actual 1990 Olympic NP RMP contains. Combining subjective priority measures with
budget dollars and personnel time into an objective function creates a subjective economic metric for comparing different
RMP’s. By applying this planning procedure, actual expenditures of budget and personnel in Olympic NP can agree more closely
with the staff’s management objectives for the park. |
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Keywords: | Analytic hierarchy process resource allocation linear programming Olympic National Park |
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