An Analytical Hierarchy Model for Assessing Global Water Productivity of Irrigation Networks in Iran

Montazar, Aliasghar; Zadbagher, E.

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“…The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is an effective approach developed by [7] that can be used to solve complex problems and enable effective decision making. Many researches had been applied in several fields, for example, in engineering [8], industry [9], economics [10], environmental management, and water management [11][12][13][14][15][16].…”

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“…The findings of [13] showed that the Analytic Hierarchy Model for decision making in the planning the Global Water Productivity (GWP) of irrigation networks in Iran. It can be used to aggregate preferences for obtaining a group decision to improve the choice problems by considering effectively the relevant criteria in the decision making process.…”

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Analytic Hierarchy Process for Stakeholder Participation in Integrated Water Resources Management

Thungngern¹,

Sriburi²,

Wijitkosum³

2017

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Abstract. This paper focuses on the applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) to develop a model for water resource management in the Pranburi watershed by using stakeholder participation. The hierarchy model structure of the Pranburi watershed was developed by the experts based on IWRM and classified into 4 criteria, 15 sub-criteria, and 3 alternatives. The questionnaire method was the tool used for obtaining a weighing for comparison between the pairs of criteria obtained from community representatives. The finding revealed that the important criteria are the environmental factors. The highest ranked of the alternatives is the watershed planning strategy. These results implied that community focused stakeholder participation in the decision-making process for water resources in Pranburi watershed gave a positive outcome. This research clearly presented the capability of the AHP approach integrates with IWRM principle for water resource planning. The AHP approach can analyze the community representative's relevant data before decision making, by applying pairwise comparison of the AHP technique, can reduce bias during decision making. More importantly, the government should support collaboration with local officers and the community in the decision making policy on water resource planning.

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Analytic Hierarchy Process for Stakeholder Participation in Integrated Water Resources Management

Thungngern¹,

Sriburi²,

Wijitkosum³

2017

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“…The mining allowance of groundwater resource factor (=1 when no mining is allowed) can be considered as the ratio of the groundwater allocation to the irrigation area to the annual recharge of groundwater resources. This definition has been already used by Khare et al (2006), Montazar & Zadbagher (2010), and Montazar (2011). The irrigation water, from Madian River and 396 wells, has a good quality (pH = 7.2-7.7; electrical conductivity-EC = 0.5-3.1 dS m -1 ; sodium adsorption ratio-SAR = 1.2-1.9).…”

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“…AHP is an effective way to deal with complicated problems that cannot be analyzed by quantitative method completely. The approach has been developed and applied to agricultural and water management numerous areas (Montazar & Behbahani, 2007;Okada et al, 2008a,b;Srdjevic & Medeiros, 2008;Zahang, 2009;Montazar & Zadbagher, 2010). It is directly related to productivity of irrigation systems and greatly contributes to improved soil and water utilization.…”

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Modelo de preferencia multiatributo para la planificación óptima de cultivos de regadío en condiciones de escasez de agua

Montazar

Snyder

2012

Span. j. agric. res.

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Water resources sustainability has a key role in the existence and durability of irrigated farming systems and strongly depends on the crop planning. The decision process is complex due to a number of constraints and the desire to secure crop diversification and the involvement of affected various parameters. The objective of the present study was to develop a comprehensive multi-criteria model for selecting adequate cropping pattern in an irrigation district under water scarcity condition. Eleven and nine attribute decisions were considered in ranking the type of crop and determination of the percentage of crop cultivation area as an optimal irrigated crop planning system, respectively. The results indicate that the proposed multi-attribute preference approach can synthesize various sets of criteria in the preference elicitation of the crop type and cultivated area. The predictive validity analysis shows that the preferences acquired by the proposed model are evidently in reasonable accordance with those of the conjunctive water use model. Consequently, the model may be used to aggregate preferences in order to obtain a group decision, improve understanding of the choice problem, accommodate multiple objectives and increase transparency and credibility in decision making by actively involving relevant criteria in the crop planning.Additional key words: analytical hierarchy process; cropping pattern; Koohdasht irrigation district; multi-criteria approach. ResumenModelo de preferencia multiatributo para la planificación óptima de cultivos de regadío en condiciones de escasez de agua La sostenibilidad de los recursos hídricos tiene un papel clave en la existencia y durabilidad de los sistemas agríco-las de riego y depende en gran medida de la planificación de los cultivos. El proceso de decisión es complejo, debido a una serie de restricciones y el deseo de asegurar la diversificación de los cultivos y la participación de diversos parámetros afectados. El objetivo del presente estudio fue desarrollar un modelo multicriterio completo para seleccionar una combinación adecuada de cultivo en un distrito de riego con escasez hídrica. La planificación de un sistema ópti-mo de cultivos en regadíos se realizó considerando once y nueve atributos de decisión para jerarquizar el tipo de cultivo y su porcentaje de superficie, respectivamente. Los resultados indican que el enfoque de preferencia de atributos múltiples puede sintetizar varios conjuntos de criterios en la selección del tipo de cultivo y la superficie cultivada. El análisis de validación muestra que las preferencias generadas por el modelo propuesto están razonablemente de acuerdo con las obtenidas en el modelo de uso del agua. En consecuencia, el modelo podría ser utilizado para agregar preferencias a fin de obtener una decisión de grupo, mejorar la comprensión del problema de elección, adaptarse a múltiples objetivos y aumentar la transparencia y la credibilidad en la toma de decisiones en las que la planificación de cultivos esté involucrada.Palabras c...

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“…Montazar and Zadbagher [9] used AHP in measuring the global water production status in an irrigation network. There are 14 major irrigation networks with 14 attributes to be examined using AHP.…”

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Selecting the Appropriate Decision Alternatives using SM and AHP

Maidamisa¹,

Ahmad²,

Ismail³

2012

IJCA

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The paper employed two decision analysis methods to solve a farmer's choice of the crop's problem, for planting purposes. The first method is scoring model, while the second method is the analytical hierarchy process. A result yields two different ranking of crops. It was shown that the ranking obtained from the first method has no association with the ranking produced by the second method. This paper is the first research work to utilize scoring method with the analytical hierarchy process in Agricultural decision making. It compares two rankings results and infers on their performance. General Terms:Multi criteria decision analysis techniques.

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An Analytical Hierarchy Model for Assessing Global Water Productivity of Irrigation Networks in Iran

Cited by 24 publications

References 17 publications

Analytic Hierarchy Process for Stakeholder Participation in Integrated Water Resources Management

Analytic Hierarchy Process for Stakeholder Participation in Integrated Water Resources Management

Modelo de preferencia multiatributo para la planificación óptima de cultivos de regadío en condiciones de escasez de agua

Selecting the Appropriate Decision Alternatives using SM and AHP

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