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This paper presents a Scorecard, which associated with a geographic information system (GIS), will provide a management tool to assess vulnerability within a protected area. To accomplish this task a novel framework is presented, which enables the design of logical predicates evaluated with fuzzy logic. This tool may guide decisions and investment priorities in protected areas. We have taken the Valdes Peninsula Protected Natural Area as a case study, which has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. In this area we have released an intense amount of variables related to natural resources, as well as human uses of land and territory and the effectiveness of the management plan and management area. To evaluate the vulnerability values of different parcels, according to a set of field collected variables is proposed a framework that manages logic predicates using fuzzy logic. Several ecologists evaluated this framework satisfactorily due to the easy-to-use interface and that the shown results are highly understandable for those who need to make decisions on environmental care.
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Meschino, G.J., Nabte, M., Gesualdo, S., Monjeau, A., Passoni, L.I. (2014). Fuzzy Tree Studio: A Tool for the Design of the Scorecard for the Management of Protected Areas. In: Espin, R., Pérez, R., Cobo, A., Marx, J., Valdés, A. (eds) Soft Computing for Business Intelligence. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 537. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53737-0_6
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