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The Analytic Hierarchy Process in Natural Resource and Environmental Decision Making

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Daniel L. Schmoldt

    1. USDA Forest service, Southern Research station, Blacksburg, USA

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  2. Jyrki Kangas

    1. Kannus Research Station, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Kannus, Finland

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  3. Guillermo A. Mendoza

    1. Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

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  4. Mauno Pesonen

    1. Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa, Finland

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Part of the book series: Managing Forest Ecosystems (MAFE, volume 3)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Basic Principles of Decision Making in Natural Resources and the Environment

    • Daniel L. Schmoldt, Jyrki Kangas, G. A. Mendoza
    Pages 1-13

  3. Fundamentals of the Analytic Hierarchy Process

    • Thomas L. Saaty
    Pages 15-35

  4. On Using the AHP in Multiple Objective Linear Programming

    • Pekka Korhonen, Jyrki Wallenius
    Pages 37-50

  5. HERO: Heuristic Optimisation for Multi-Criteria Forestry Decision Analysis

    • Jyrki Kangas, Timo Pukkala, Annika S. Kangas
    Pages 51-65

  6. Strategic and Tactical Planning for Managing National Park Resources

    • Daniel L. Schmoldt, David L. Peterson
    Pages 67-79

  7. Combined Use of Goal Programming and the Analytic Hierarchy Process in Forest Management

    • Luis Díaz-Balteiro, Carlos Romero
    Pages 81-95

  8. Efficient Group Decision Making in Workshop Settings

    • Daniel L. Schmoldt, David L. Peterson
    Pages 97-114

  9. Prioritizing Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management: A Case Study on Participatory Decision Making

    • G. A. Mendoza, R. Prabhu
    Pages 115-129

  10. Integrating the AHP and HERO into the Process of Participatory Natural Resources Planning

    • Jyrki Kangas, Leena A. Hytönen, Teppo Loikkanen
    Pages 131-147

  11. Environmental Cognition: Contributions from the Analytic Hierarchy Process Toward Construction of Cognitive Maps

    • Reza Banai
    Pages 149-165

  12. Potential Allowable Cut of Finland Using the AHP to Model Landowners’ Strategic Decision Making

    • Mauno Pesonen
    Pages 167-185

  13. Applying A’WOT to Forest Industry Investment Strategies: Case Study of a Finnish Company in North America

    • Mauno Pesonen, Jyrki Ahola, Mikko Kurttila, Miika Kajanus, Jyrki Kangas
    Pages 187-198

  14. Prioritizing Salmon Habitat Restoration with the AHP, SMART, and Uncertain Data

    • Keith M. Reynolds
    Pages 199-217

  15. A Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process for Assessing Biodiversity Conservation

    • G. A. Mendoza, R. Prabhu
    Pages 219-233

  16. Regression Methods for Pairwise Comparison Data

    • Juha M. Alho, Osmo Kolehmainen, Pekka Leskinen
    Pages 235-251

  17. Using GeoChoicePerspectives in Collaborative Spatial Decision Making

    • Piotr Jankowski, Timothy Nyerges
    Pages 253-268

  18. Integrating the AHP with Geographic Information Systems for Assessing Resource Conditions in Rural Catchments in Australia

    • Robert M. Itami, Glen MacLaren, Kathleen Hirst
    Pages 269-287

  19. Past Developments and Future Directions for the AHP in Natural Resources

    • Daniel L. Schmoldt, G. A. Mendoza, Jyrki Kangas
    Pages 289-305

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 307-307
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • USDA Forest service, Southern Research station, Blacksburg, USA

    Daniel L. Schmoldt

  • Kannus Research Station, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Kannus, Finland

    Jyrki Kangas

  • Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

    Guillermo A. Mendoza

  • Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa, Finland

    Mauno Pesonen

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