Analytic Hierarchy Process for Stakeholder Participation in Integrated Water Resources Management

Abstract

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.

Multi-Level Prioritization Analysis of Water Governance Components to Improve Agricultural Water-Saving Policy: A Case Study from Korea

“…The cognizant experiences of the experts showed that 84% have more than five years of experience in agricultural water management and rural development in Korea while 68% have more than five years of experience in governance. It has previously been reported that experts' opinions can help to classify and rank complex factors of water resources management [35]. Meanwhile, the expert with a minimum of five years of experience on a subject is considered to have adequate knowledge to offer an appropriate and relevant opinion.…”

“…The opinions of the experts were subjected to relative weights using pairwise comparisons based on the AHD method. This process can be regarded as a group decision-making process based on the analysis of individual expert rankings aimed at finding appropriate alternatives to the water resources problem [35]. The result of hierarchical analysis with experts' opinions evaluation based on the relative weight of criteria for the main components of agricultural water governance showed that core actors (0.316) should be the first priority when it comes to achieving the goal of water conservation and water-saving policy followed by law, policies, and systems (0.239), budget support (0.142), information sharing and communication (0.135), mutual learning (0.099), and external experts (0.069) (Table 4).…”

“…The AHP analysis allows the systematic evaluation of various factors to provide a relatively simple solution to water resources management [27]. Since the decision-making process involving stakeholders is an integral part of water resources management [35], the AHP was employed in this study to assess the key components of water governance to aid the agricultural water-saving policy in Korea.…”

Fuzzy AHP Integrated with GIS Analyses for Drought Risk Assessment: A Case Study from Upper Phetchaburi River Basin, Thailand

“…If the environment where the decision-making process takes place is fuzzy, then fuzzy numbers will be used for the evaluation concerning some deviations of the decision makers. According to the literature, the AHP method is a decision support tool that is widely employed to solve complex decision problems or as a weight-estimating technique in many fields such as water resource management, environmental management, economic development and medicine and healthcare [1,27,28,[36][37][38].…”

Analysis of Drinking Water Supply System Improvement Using Fuzzy AHP(Case Study: Subang Local Water Company)

“…This method is often used in research to improve drinking water supply as the research that was done by [16] Bojan Sradjevic and Medeiros in the year (2008). In Thailand year [18] (2015), Thungngern has done AHP approach and multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) in water resources management. [9] Okeola (2012) did the same approach to evaluate the distribution of urban drinking water in Nigeria.…”