Bridging Gaps in Targeting Criteria for a Payment for Ecosystem Services Program in southern Chile

The study deals with a Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) design in southern Chile. We combined expert elicitation with spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to develop and apply a socio-ecological targeting framework in the municipality of Río Bueno in southern Chile.

The uploaded data compromises the following:



Anonymized Survey Data & Questionnaire (Spanish and English)

Spatial Analysis & Data:





Digitized properties of Río Bueno (.shp) 




Individual criteria mapping (incl. rawdata, .shp, raster, reclassified raster, spatial modelling description)




Suitability Analysis & Property Ranking Output (incl. suitability raster, .shp of property ranking, excel property ranking, high resolution maps, spatial modelling description)




Sensitivity Analysis & Property Ranking Output (incl. suitability raster, .shp of property ranking, excel property ranking, high resolution maps, spatial modelling description)