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Integrating Ecosystem and Infrastructure Services into a Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria analysis : A path towards improved assessment of Linking Opportunities in Dutch dike-strengthening projects
Wingens, Max (2023) Integrating Ecosystem and Infrastructure Services into a Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria analysis : A path towards improved assessment of Linking Opportunities in Dutch dike-strengthening projects.
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| Abstract: | This research has developed an assessment method for Linking Opportunities (LO) in Dutch dike-strengthening projects, using project success criteria, ecosystem services and infrastructure services in a multi-actor multi-criteria analysis (MAMCA). Thereby, the research demonstrated that ecosystem services and infrastructure services can effectively be integrated to operationalise public value creation for purposes of decision making. Multiple interviewees and industry professionals that were involved in this research have stated that the service framework used in this research, composed of ecosystem services and infrastructure services, provided a helpful vocabulary to discuss priorities, convey viewpoints, and assess LOs. Secondly, this research showed the advantages of using a MAMCA to indicate the distribution of adverse and beneficial effects for individual stakeholders. Here, stakeholder management approaches may be supported by the insight of which stakeholders might take a defensive stance following the adverse effects on their interests after LO integration. Additionally, this insight might promote decision making that promotes a fairer distribution of adverse and beneficial effects. Thirdly, the assessment tool provides, previously unavailable, comparability between LOs by adopting a CEA in the assessment that uses the actor-weighted MAMCA scores and the realisation costs of LOs. This comparability allows for decision making that promotes a more cost-effective allocation of resources, thereby stimulating additional public value creation in comparison to less cost-effective alternatives. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Clients: | RoyalHaskoningDHV, Amersfoort, Netherlands |
| Faculty: | ET: Engineering Technology |
| Subject: | 56 civil engineering |
| Programme: | Civil Engineering and Management MSc (60026) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/96670 |
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