Regional environmental assessment for multiagency policy making: implementing an environmental ontology through GIS-MCDA


Por: Bojorquez-Tapia, LA, Luna-Gonzalez, L, Cruz-Bello, GM, Gomez-Priego, P, Juarez-Marusich, L, Rosas-Perez, I

Publicada: 1 may 2011
Resumen:
Regional environmental assessments aim to synthesize the complex dynamics of socioenvironmental systems to facilitate sustainable policymaking. Theoretically, these assessments serve as 'boundary objects' that link scientific knowledge and policy making within a multiagency context. Nevertheless, achieving a boundary object is challenging because of the significant technical and scientific uncertainties, as well as the contrasting perceptions, values, and ideologies regarding the environmental issues of concern. Drawing on theoretical developments concerning the meaning and interpretation of geographical entities, we introduce an analytical framework based upon the development of environmental ontologies. These ontologies are capable of depicting the complexity of socioenvironmental systems in manageable terms, so that the results are empirically valid and concretize the multidimensional meanings of geographical entities. The analytical framework is operationalized through a geographic

Filiaciones:
Bojorquez-Tapia, LA:
 Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Ecol, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico

Luna-Gonzalez, L:
 Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Geog, CU, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico

Cruz-Bello, GM:
 Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Geog, CU, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico

Gomez-Priego, P:
 Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Ecol, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico

Juarez-Marusich, L:
 Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Programa Univ Medio Ambiente, CU, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico

Rosas-Perez, I:
 Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Programa Univ Medio Ambiente, CU, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
ISSN: 02658135
Editorial
PION LTD, 207 BRONDESBURY PARK, LONDON NW2 5JN, ENGLAND, Reino Unido
Tipo de documento: Article
Volumen: 38 Número: 3
Páginas: 539-563
WOS Id: 000292535700010