Introducing the SWOT scorecard technique to analyse diversified AE collective schemes with a DEX model

Rudolf, Janja (author), Udovč, Andrej (author)

Comparing diversified agri-environmental (AE) collective schemes in their capability to provide AE public goods faces great challenges, mostly because of their diversified nature and relatively new way to approach the provision of AE public goods. The state of the art is that there are not yet any common quantitative indicators or data to build a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model to compare it with other practices and to set the strategic plan for the scheme’s improvement. Nevertheless, some qualitative common data of SWOT analyses are available, but the question remains how to simultaneously compare several SWOT analyses in an MCDM model. This study introduces a new way of transforming the qualitative results of SWOT analyses to fit in the MCDM Decision Expert (DEX) model using a special transformation technique SWOT scorecard. The SWOT scorecard evaluates the importance of qualitative results of several SWOT analyses simultaneously in a quantitative way, describing with points how supportive the environment is to each criterion in the DEX model. The SWOT scorecard keeps track of the original results from SWOT analysis and considers the diversity of AE schemes, which results in an appearance of the convergence points. This gives a key for comparing the AE collective schemes in providing AE public goods. Furthermore, it gives a solution for discussing the synergy between aspects that affect AE public goods provision for every AE scheme investigated. The technique is tested via five AE collective schemes in the DEXi program and gives deeper insight into factors that affect each scheme’s performance.

• Language: English
• Keywords: agri-environmental public goods, multi-criteria decision making, decision expert, agri-environmental collective scheme, SWOT analysis, strategic planning, scorecard, qualitative data, performance
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 19 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 14, iss. 2, art. 785
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-134406
• UDC: 63
• ISSN on article: 2071-1050
• DOI: 10.3390/su14020785
• COBISS.SI-ID: 93295875
• Publication date in RUL: 13.01.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sustainability
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2071-1050
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5324897

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 11.01.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: kmetijsko-okoljske javne dobrine, večkriterijsko odločanje, strokovnjak za odločanje, kmetijsko-okoljska kolektivna shema, SWOT analiza, strateško načrtovanje, kazalniki, kvalitativni podatki, izvedba

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: H2020
• Project number: 818190
• Name: Co-design of novel contract models for innovative agri-environmental-climate measures and for valorisation of environmental public goods
• Acronym: Contracts2.0