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Sustainability in rangeland systems: Introduction of fuzzy multi objective decision making

Hossein Azadi1 * , Jan Van Den Berg2 , Peter Ho1 and Gholamhossein Hosseininia3

1 Centre for Development Studies, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

2 Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, Section of ICT, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

3 Deputy of Research, Education and Extension, Ministry of Cooperative, Tehran, Iran

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.4.1.04

It is widely recognized that approaching sustainability in rangeland management needs to take many criteria into consideration which unavoidably calls for the application of multi-criteria decision making approach. Bearing conflicting objectives in mind, which are mainly conservation and utilization, we have introduced fuzzy multi-objectives decision making as a suitable approach when sustainability in rangeland management is a goal. While some extensions of the approach are discussed, interactive fuzzy multi objective linear programming, and a framework including three stages are presented to make it more applicable. The proposed approach in this paper comprises three important advantages for decision makers to apply: first, it is a useful tool to involve trade-offs analysis between the conflicting objectives; second, it challenges to uncertainty of any decision in sustainable rangeland management; and third, it considers existing alternatives under given constraints by developing new alternatives for all possible situations.


Rangeland; Fuzzy Logic; MCDM; MODM; Sustainability; Conservation; Utilization

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Azadi H, Berg J.V.D, Ho P, Hosseininia G. Sustainability in rangeland systems: Introduction of fuzzy multi objective decision making. Curr World Environ 2009;4(1):19-32 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.4.1.04

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Azadi H, Berg J.V.D, Ho P, Hosseininia G. Sustainability in rangeland systems: Introduction of fuzzy multi objective decision making. Curr World Environ 2009;4(1):19-32. Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=881

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