期刊名称:Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
印刷版ISSN:1994-7887
电子版ISSN:2077-2181
出版年度:2012
卷号:5
期号:5
页码:364-372
DOI:10.3923/jest.2012.364.372
出版社:Asian Network for Scientific Information
摘要:There is an urgent need to evaluate the land use suitability in coastal area because of increasing population, providing place for naturally protective coastal ecosystem and improving cumulative impacts. This study presented an application of multi criteria decision analysis technique as an approach to deal with regional coastal management and planning. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique has been used to obtain preference weights of land use suitability criteria in a study area located in Marang region in Malaysia. AHP technique is a useful tool to deal with the problem to design the alternatives which optimize the objectives. Furthermore, this technique can be used by researchers to make a precise decision and acceptable personal judgements together with expert knowledge.