A Smart MCDM Framework to Evaluate the Impact of Air Pollution on City Sustainability: A Case Study from China

Wang, Qingyong; Dai, Hong-Ning; Wang, Hao

doi:10.3390/su9060911

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“…The increasing awareness of hazards results in the development of environmental protection policy, and the establishment of relevant supervisory institutions [39,40]. The awareness of responsibility for future generations is increasing as well [41][42][43][44].…”

Section: Attempts To Solve the Pollutant Emission Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessment of Reducing Pollutant Emissions in Selected Heating and Ventilation Systems in Single-Family Houses

2020

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The article presents the results of a study aiming to select the optimal source of heat for a newly designed single-family home. Commercial software was used to compare heating and ventilation systems involving a bituminous coal boiler, a condensing gas boiler, a biomass boiler, a heat pump with water and glycol as heat transfer media. The effectiveness of natural ventilation, mechanical ventilation with a ground-coupled heat exchanger, and solar heater panels for water heating were evaluated. The analysis was based on the annual demand for useful energy, final energy, and non-renewable primary energy in view of the pollution output of the evaluated heating systems. The analysis revealed that the heat pump with water and glycol was the optimal solution. However, the performance of the heat pump in real-life conditions was below its maximum theoretical efficiency. The biomass boiler contributed to the highest reduction in pollutant emissions (according to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Change guidelines, carbon dioxide emissions have zero value), but it was characterized by the highest demand for final energy. Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery was required in all analyzed systems to achieve optimal results. The introduction of mechanical ventilation decreased the demand for final energy by 10% to around 40% relative to the corresponding heating systems with natural ventilation.

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Section: Attempts To Solve the Pollutant Emission Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessment of Reducing Pollutant Emissions in Selected Heating and Ventilation Systems in Single-Family Houses

2020

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“…The following sections show why this approach is an integral part of MADM models. As MADM models and methods are applicable and important in the field of sustainability, it is clear that these new approaches apply to new perspectives in sustainability issues [67][68][69][70].…”

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The Multi-Aspect Criterion in the PMADM Outline and Its Possible Application to Sustainability Assessment

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Over the past few centuries, the process of decision-making has become more complicated in different respects. Since the initial phase of Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) around fifty years ago, Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM) has continued developing over the years as a sub-concept of MCDM. Noticeably, the importance of the decision-making process is increasingly expanding to such an extent that it necessarily blends into the undeniable processes of MADM actual models. Novel methods with different perspectives have been introduced considering the dynamic MADM concepts of time and future in classical frameworks; however, they do not overcome challenges in practice. Recently, Prospective MADM (PMADM) as a specific approach has presented future-oriented models using already known approaches of MCDM, and it has innovative items which show barriers of classic model of MADM. However, PMADM practically needs more conceptual bases to illustrate and plan the future of real decision-making problems. The Multi-Aspect Criterion is a new concept in mapping the future of the PMADM outline. In this regard, two examples of sustainability will be analyzed, and different requirements and aspects associated with PMADM will be discussed in this study. This new approach can support the PMADM outline in more detail and deal with a decision-making structure that can be considered as novel to industry experts.

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“…Therefore, four indicators are selected for ecological protection resources: green coverage rate of built-up area, utilization of general industrial solid waste, centralized treatment rate of sewage treatment plant, harmless treatment of household garbage [5]. To sum up, the paper establishes an indicator system of urban economic relations that includes 32 specific indicators in five major development areas.…”

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Measurement of Economic Linkage Different Development of Urban Agglomeration

Lei¹,

Guo²,

Chen³

2018

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At present, the economic development in Hubei Province has initially entered new era of "one principal two deputy, multi-polar development". In order to further explore the future of urban development, we ranked prefecture cities in Hubei Provinces with the intensity model of central place function. Meanwhile, according to 32 selected indicators, we investigated the economic linkage between these cities with improved gravity model and principal component analysis model. Our results show that: 1) Regarding intensity value of central city z = 2, 0.9, 0.6 as the boundary, 12 cities can be divided into four levels with Wuhan in level 1; Yichang, Xiangyang and Jingzhou in level 2; Huangshi, Shiyan, Jingmen, Xiaogan, Huanggang, Xianning in level 3; the remaining cities in level 4, respectively. 2) According to the economic linkage value, the economic linkages between cities are classified into three levels: closely related, generally related and weakly related. Among them, the generally related and weakly related linkages are most likely caused by the cities' own economic development structure or their long geographical distance from the economic central city.

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A Smart MCDM Framework to Evaluate the Impact of Air Pollution on City Sustainability: A Case Study from China

Cited by 52 publications

References 40 publications

Assessment of Reducing Pollutant Emissions in Selected Heating and Ventilation Systems in Single-Family Houses

Assessment of Reducing Pollutant Emissions in Selected Heating and Ventilation Systems in Single-Family Houses

The Multi-Aspect Criterion in the PMADM Outline and Its Possible Application to Sustainability Assessment

Measurement of Economic Linkage Different Development of Urban Agglomeration

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