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Value-focused development of a multiobjective watershed-management plan in Hawaii

Mark Ridgley, Denise Mills

Abstract:

This paper describes a year-long effort that applied value-focused thinking and the AHP to the challenge of facilitating public participation in the development of a watershed-management plan for the island of Hawaii. Given the intended audience of this volume, the paper focuses on the multiobjective methodology (value-focused thinking and the AHP) we used to guide the participants in their quest. However, we also offer commentary on the role and caveats of using such methodologies in and for facilitation of public participatory processes, and on the nature of consensus and how it is often construed and used in facilitation.

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Mark Ridgley, Denise Mills, (2009), Value-focused development of a multiobjective watershed-management plan in Hawaii, Multiple Criteria Decision Making (4), pp. 169-184

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