Best Decision Making Technique in Forest Management Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

Making decision about the environment, especially forest resources management, often involves the balancing of conflicting, incommensurate and incompatible values of many users and uses of a resource. Therefore, one of the most fundamental and difficult tasks involved is the effective integration or synthesis of all values - environmental, economic and social, which is a necessary first step to achieve and maintain ecologically sustainable development. This research shows Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) as a potential decision-making tool in forest resources management. Three levels of hierarchy were developed with goal at the highest level, followed by criteria and alternative. Criteria were chosen based on the Malaysian Criteria and Indicator (2002) for assessment of sustainable forest management. Using this technique, the determination of priority for all the alternatives will be considered and where the option of forest resources use with highest priority value is more suitable to be implemented will be verified