Journal of
Faculty of Civil Engineering

JOURNAL OF FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING 49, 2026.y., pp. 45-58

	DOI: 10.14415/JFCE-930
	UDC: 332.2/.6:338(497.113 BELA CRKVA)
	CC-BY-SA 4.0 license
	Author : Ilić, Zoran; Bojović, Bogdan; Kuželka, Darko; Krstić, Vladica; Rakićević, Nenad
	Summary:
	Land consolidation represents one of the most important measures for increasing productivity, improving agrarian structure, and enhancing agricultural production. A key challenge in practice is the need for a comprehensive and objective determination of priorities, specifically the ranking of cadastral municipalities for implementing land consolidation projects. The main objective of this paper is to apply the Zero Unitarization Method (ZUM) to rank land consolidation projects within the Municipality of Bela Crkva, based on ten socio-economic and agrarian criteria. The input dataset includes cadastral municipalities with heterogeneous agricultural characteristics, while the zero unitarization method is employed to transform diverse stimulative and non-stimulative criteria into a unified evaluation scale. The results show that the cadastral municipality Dobričevo ranks as the highest priority, whereas Kajtasovo occupies the lowest position, with significant differences observed in the composite index values. The resulting ranking provides a foundation for planning future land consolidation projects, and the proposed methodological approach can be applied to other municipalities in Serbia.
	Keywords:
	land consolidation, zero unitarization method, multicriteria decision-making, agrarian structure, ZUM.