The Analytic Hierarchy Process in Natural Resource and Environmental Decision Making

✍ Scribed by Daniel L. Schmoldt, Jyrki Kangas (auth.), Daniel L. Schmoldt, Jyrki Kangas, Guillermo A. Mendoza, Mauno Pesonen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Series: Managing Forest Ecosystems 3
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Decision making in land management involves preferential selection among competing alternatives. Often, such choices are difficult owing to the complexity of the decision context. Because the analytic hierarchy process (AHP, developed by Thomas Saaty in the 1970s) has been successfully applied to many complex planning, resource allocation, and priority setting problems in business, energy, health, marketing, natural resources, and transportation, more applications of the AHP in natural resources and environmental sciences are appearing regularly. This realization has prompted the authors to collect some of the important works in this area and present them as a single volume for managers and scholars. Because land management contains a somewhat unique set of features not found in other AHP application areas, such as site-specific decisions, group participation and collaboration, and incomplete scientific knowledge, this text fills a void in the literature on management science and decision analysis for forest resources.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Basic Principles of Decision Making in Natural Resources and the Environment....Pages 1-13
Fundamentals of the Analytic Hierarchy Process....Pages 15-35
On Using the AHP in Multiple Objective Linear Programming....Pages 37-50
HERO: Heuristic Optimisation for Multi-Criteria Forestry Decision Analysis....Pages 51-65
Strategic and Tactical Planning for Managing National Park Resources....Pages 67-79
Combined Use of Goal Programming and the Analytic Hierarchy Process in Forest Management....Pages 81-95
Efficient Group Decision Making in Workshop Settings....Pages 97-114
Prioritizing Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management: A Case Study on Participatory Decision Making....Pages 115-129
Integrating the AHP and HERO into the Process of Participatory Natural Resources Planning....Pages 131-147
Environmental Cognition: Contributions from the Analytic Hierarchy Process Toward Construction of Cognitive Maps....Pages 149-165
Potential Allowable Cut of Finland Using the AHP to Model Landowners’ Strategic Decision Making....Pages 167-185
Applying A’WOT to Forest Industry Investment Strategies: Case Study of a Finnish Company in North America....Pages 187-198
Prioritizing Salmon Habitat Restoration with the AHP, SMART, and Uncertain Data....Pages 199-217
A Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process for Assessing Biodiversity Conservation....Pages 219-233
Regression Methods for Pairwise Comparison Data....Pages 235-251
Using GeoChoicePerspectives in Collaborative Spatial Decision Making....Pages 253-268
Integrating the AHP with Geographic Information Systems for Assessing Resource Conditions in Rural Catchments in Australia....Pages 269-287
Past Developments and Future Directions for the AHP in Natural Resources....Pages 289-305
Back Matter....Pages 307-307

✦ Subjects

Forestry Management; Economic Geology; Environmental Management; Ecotoxicology; Operation Research/Decision Theory