Indicators of environmentally sound land use in the humid tropics the potential roles of expert opinion, knowledge engineering and knowledge discovery
Despite abundant literature on indicators for sustainable resource management, practical tools to help local users to apply its general concepts at a local to regional level are scarce. This means that decisions over land evaluation and land use at a local level are often not based on the formal application of indicators or decision support systems for environmentally sound management but instead on the opinion of local expertise, for instance forest managers, cattle breeders, farmers and/or academics. This is particularly seen to be the case in the tropics where access to modern communication and information technologies is restricted. As the opinions of experts are often based on and influenced by personal experience, intuition, heuristics and bias, their evaluations and decision are often unclear to the non-expert working at a local level. In order to make their reasoning more comprehensible to the non-expert, the ecological condition of 176 plots in the tropical Southeast of Mexico were evaluated by experts on soil fertility, forest management, cattle breeding and agriculture. With the assistance of a knowledge engineer (one who converts expert knowledge and reasoning into a model), these expert opinions and reasoning were then translated into a formal computer model.
Main Authors: | Kampichler, Christian Doctor autor 14772, Hernández Daumás, Salvador Doctor autor 2023, Ochoa Gaona, Susana Doctora autora 72, Geissen Geissen, Violette Doctora autora 2022, Huerta Lwanga, Esperanza Doctora autora 2039, De Jong, Bernardus Hendricus Jozeph Doctor autor 2038 |
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Format: | Texto biblioteca |
Language: | eng |
Subjects: | Indicadores ambientales, Evaluación ecológica (Biología), Uso de la tierra, Ordenamiento ecológico, Sustentabilidad, Artfrosur, |
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