The Analytic Hierarchy Process in Natural Resource and Environmental Decision Making

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.

• Analysis
• Marketing
• biodiversity
• forest
• linear optimization
• optimization
• Forestry Management
• economic geology
• ecotoxicology

• 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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