Criteria and Indicators to Define Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam

verfasst von

Xuan Dinh Vu, Elmar Csaplovics, Christopher Marrs, Trung Thanh Nguyen

Abstract

Balancing biodiversity conservation with land use for agricultural production is a major societal challenge. Conservation activities must be prioritized since funds and resources for conservation are insufficient in the context of current threats, and conservation competes with other societal priorities. In order to contribute to conservation priority-setting literature, we applied an environmental model, Pressure–State–Response (PSR), to develop a set of criteria for identifying priority areas for biodiversity conservation in Vietnam. Our empirical data have been compiled from 185 respondents and categorized into three groups: Governmental Administration and Organizations, Universities and Research Institutions, and Protected Areas. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) theory was used to identify the weight of all criteria. Our results show that the priority levels for biodiversity conservation identified by these three factors are 41% for “Pressure”, 26% for “State”, and 33% for “Response”. Based on these three factors, seven criteria and seventeen indicators were developed to determine priority areas for biodiversity conservation. Besides, our study also reveals that the groups of Governmental Administration and organizations and Protected Areas put a focus on the “Pressure” factor, while the group of Universities and Research Institutions emphasized the importance of the “Response” factor in the evaluation process. We suggest that these criteria and indicators be used to identify priority areas for biodiversity conservation in Vietnam.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Umweltökonomik und Welthandel

Externe Organisation(en)

Vietnam National University of Forestry
Technische Universität Dresden

Typ

Artikel

Journal

FORESTS

Band

13

ISSN

1999-4907

Publikationsdatum

09.2022

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Forstwissenschaften

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 2 – Kein Hunger, SDG 15 – Lebensraum Land

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.3390/f13091341 (Zugang: Offen)