Test

Methods and Dimensions

Has temporal scale	Long term (strategic)
Has spatial context	Spatial with neighborhood interrelations
Has spatial scale	Forest level
Has objectives dimension	Multiple
Has goods and services dimension	Market non wood products, Market wood products, Non market services
Has decision making dimension	More than one decision maker/stakeholder
Has risk/uncertainty analysis	no
Has advantages	AHP is a relatively simple and transparent method which is an advantage in participatory planning.
Has disadvantages	Using the standard AHP with pairwise comparisons of both criteria and alternatives may be cognitively demanding to the DM(s) with a larger number of criteria and alternatives. In turn, this may lead to inconsistency in preferences.
Has main contraints	The number of elements to be compared at each level should probably not exceed 4-5.
Has related method	Yes, using AHP in combination with other methods (regression, value functions, etc) may decrease the number of comparisons
Has method	Multi criteria decision analysis
Has submethods	Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
Has detailed description of methods application in the DSS	In AHP, pairwise comparisons are made of criteria, and also of alternatives in terms of each criterion. The strenght of preference for one criteria/alternative over another is stated on a nine point ratio scale. Thus, each set of comparisons can be ordered in a n x n matrix. Weights for the criteria and alternatives are calculated by determining the eigenvector corresponding to the largest eigenvalue of each matrix (the so called eigenvalue technique).The overall priority of each alternative is then calculated by multiplying the criteria weight with the weight for the alternative with respect to the criteria in question.
Uses programming language
Has reference	Nordström E.-M., Eriksson Ljusk O. & Öhman K. 2010. Integrating multiple criteria decision analysis in participatory forest planning: Experience from a case study in northern Sweden. Forest Policy and Economics 12(8): 562-574.
Has related DSS	In this paper, no full DSS was used, Web-HIPRE was used for the AHP. Since then, AHP has been implemented in the Heureka PlanEval application.