<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><article><front><Journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type='publisher'>CWE/154/2017</journal-id><journal-title >Current World Environment</journal-title><issn pub-type='PPub'>0973-4929</issn><issn pub-type='ePub'>2320-8031</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Enviro Research Publishers</publisher-name></publisher></Journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type='other'>CWE--11-00</article-id><title-group><article-title>Sustainability in rangeland systems: Introduction of fuzzy multi objective decision making</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id='aff003'><sup>3</sup><instname>Ministry of Cooperative</instname>,<deptname>Deputy of Research</deptname>, <instaddress>Education and Extension</instaddress>, <instcity>Tehran</instcity>, <instcountry>Iran</instcountry>.</aff><pub-date pub-type='ppub'><publicationDate>2009-07-09</publicationDate></pub-date><doi>10.12944/CWE.4.1.04</doi><volume>Volume 4</volume><issue>Volume 4</issue><page>19-32</page><abstract><title>Abstract</title><p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:14px&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;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.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Rangeland</kwd><kwd> Fuzzy Logic</kwd><kwd> MCDM</kwd><kwd> MODM</kwd><kwd> Sustainability</kwd><kwd> Conservation</kwd><kwd> Utilization</kwd></kwd-group><counts><ref-count count='' /><page-count count='' /></counts></article-meta></front></article>