Identification of Rangelands Utilization Systems in Guilan Province Using by Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Rangelands can play key role to supply the main part of food needs of human. In this regard, considering to optimum efficiency is very important. Nowadays, decision making is very momentous; many of decisions are made on multi criterion and multi criterion decision making methods have special position. In this study multi criteria decision making has used and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) selected to identify the most preferred utilization system in the rangelands of Guilan Province according to economic, social and ecological criterion. In this study by means of pair wise comparison among criterion and sub-criterion and using Super Decision software, Guilan provinces’ experts comments, evaluated preference and priority of strategies. Results are integrated and final preference of procedures has been obtained. In Guilan province results showed that private utilization system with overall priority 0.541 had the best preference utilization system and government utilization system with overall priority 0.317 was at the second priority and finally, traditional system had the last priority with overall priority 0.222.