Assessment of Forest Opening Up with Multi-criteria Analysis

This paper examines the compatibility of the opening-up forest works with the natural environment of the public forest of Krousion and evaluates the contribution of this method for the sustainable development of this region. To that end, we evaluate several criteria. Similar procedures are called evaluation based on multi-criteria analysis. The Decision Making Support Systems (DMSS) are used to support such problems with varying construction degrees, while they enable the development of decision rules that allow problem definition, while creating alternatives and selecting the best solution. In the case of DMSS, the GIS is used to provide information to decision-makers. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of The Hellenic Association for Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture Food and Environment (HAICTA)