The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), introduced by Thomas Saaty (1980), is a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis application commonly encountered in the natural resource management literature. By reducing complex decisions to a series of pairwise comparisons, and then synthesizing the results, it helps to capture both subjective and objective aspects of a decision. In addition, the AHP incorporates allows for checking the consistency of the decision maker’s evaluations, thus reducing the bias in the decision making process.