Evaluation of reallocation criteria in land consolidation studies using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Land consolidation (LC) can be described as the rearrangement of land areas according to developing agricultural technology. Land reallocation is the most important phase of LC. The reallocation process is a legal obligation in Turkey which takes into account landowners' preferences. First, the planner determines these preferences at interview. These interviews should be performed very carefully, because they are a tool for rearranging property rights. In this study, preferences for reallocation process were determined with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The results of an AHP-based land reallocation model were compared with the results of an interview-based land reallocation model, which is the classical model. According to the results, 62.7% of the participants were pleased with the interview-based land reallocation model, and 91.5% with the AHP-based land reallocation model. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.