A Spatial Decision Support System for Multifunctional Landscape Assessment: A Transformative Resilience Perspective for Vulnerable Inland Areas

Cerreta, Maria; Panaro, Simona; Poli, Giuliano

doi:10.3390/su13052748

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“…Planning for sustainable urban development requires a knowledge of the individual elements of the city system and its surroundings and the relationships between them, the adoption of certain assumptions and goals leading to sustainability, and the adaptation of these assumptions to local conditions. This is particularly important from a spatial perspective [107][108][109][110][111][112][113][114].…”

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Review of Experience in Recent Studies on the Dynamics of Land Urbanisation

Biłozor

Cieślak

2021

Land

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Urbanisation rapidly accelerated in the 20th century. Along with the increasing dynamics of this phenomenon, the desire to know its origins and its course as well as to anticipate its effects is also growing. Investigations into the mechanisms governing urbanisation have become the subject of numerous studies and research projects. In addition, there has been a rapid increase in the number of tools and methods used to track and measure this phenomenon. However, new methods are still being sought to identify changes in space caused by urbanisation. Some of the indicators of urbanisation processes taking place include quantitative, qualitative and structural changes in land use, occurring at a certain time and place. These processes, related to human activity at a given time and in a given area, are determined by spatial diffusion, usually spreading from the city center towards the peripheral zones. Changes in land use involve the transition from less intensive to more intensive forms of land use. The constant effort to acquire new land for development, the search for alternative solutions for the location of investments and the need to determine the correct direction of development generates the need to constantly apply newer methods in the study of the dynamics of urbanisation processes. This paper presents an overview of recent studies and the most interesting—in the authors’ opinion—methods used in research into the dynamics of urbanisation processes. The main objective of the authors was to produce a compendium to guide the reader through the wide range of topics and to provide inspiration for their own research.

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Review of Experience in Recent Studies on the Dynamics of Land Urbanisation

Biłozor

Cieślak

2021

Land

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“…A further novelty of this research was the use of the Geographic Information System, which in future insights and extensions will able to overcome the aforementioned limits with the "spatial join" functions to filter and aggregate information [190][191][192][193][194][195][196][197][198][199] and network analyses to add to the official survey aspects related to accessibility; the latter, in this case, is an issue of great impact on territorial relations, in the field of real estate values and for the measurement of the criticalities affecting a less accessible town [200].…”

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Value and Quality in the Dialectics between Human and Urban Capital of the City Networks on the Land District Scale

Nasca

Giuffrida

Trovato

2021

Land

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This contribution proposes an inter-scalar and multi-polar analysis evaluation model of the territory of the Enna district, aimed at providing a robust axiological representation of the salient aspects of the general issue of internal areas, and therefore of the set of criticalities affecting them from the perspective of the human and urban capital they express. In the prospect of investigating the relations between urban and life quality – corresponding to the “city effect” – in the territorial context of each of the 20 municipalities of the Enna district, a hierarchical descriptive-valuation model was created, which coordinates a relevant amount of information units (data) and the corresponding attributes, indicators and indices that have been turned in aggregate value judgments attributed to each administrative land unit, from the perspectives of the criteria referred to as the main forms of the territorial capital. This is a multi-dimensional valuation model based on the Multi-Attribute Value Theory. Each survey and processing is mapped with different levels of detail at the scale of municipalities, census sections and cadastral land units. The outcome of this complex process of analysis and assessment provides multiple comparisons, revealing unexpected and sometimes counter-intuitive aspects in several municipalities, some of which are characterised by innovative prospects and opportunities for redevelopment of their historic centers. Correlations between information units at the different levels of the dendrogram have also indicated interesting trends and attitudes, whose comparisons can address territorial policies on both a local and provincial scale. Furthermore, the focus on the “cities network” is here assumed and proposed as the privileged point of observation of territory and the related aspects of the quality of life.

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“…This study proposes and describes how the articulation of MCDA methods with GIS can be used to improve the evaluation and monitoring of the population's accessibility to PHC units. Although the articulation of MCDA methods with GIS has been little explored in the context of the population's accessibility to health facilities, in recent years several theoretical and empirical studies have recognized the potential of combining these systems in different sectors [15][16][17][18]. The GIS, in particular ArcGIS 10.5, plays a fundamental role both in the spatial representation of the problem, and in the determination of travel times (or physical distances) between demand and supply points, considering different means of transport.…”

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A MCDA/GIS-Based Approach for Evaluating Accessibility to Health Facilities

Lopes

Marques

Castro

2021

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021

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Access to health care services is a key concept in the formulation of health policies to improve the population’s health status and to mitigate inequities in health. Previous studies have significantly enhanced our understanding and knowledge of the role played by spatial distribution of health facilities in sustaining population health, with extensive research being devoted to the place-based accessibility theory, with special focus on the gravity-based methods. Although they represent a good starting point to analyse disparities across different regions, the results are not intelligible for policy-making purposes. Given the weaknesses of these methods and the multidimensional nature of the topic, this study intends to: (i) highlight the main measurements of access and their major challenges; and (ii) propose a framework based on multiple criteria decision analysis methods and GIS to appraise the population’s accessibility to health facilities. In particular, this framework is based on a new variant of the UTASTAR method, which requires decision makers and/or experts preference information, in the form of an ordinal ranking, similarly to the UTASTAR method, but to which cardinal information is also added. A numerical example is presented to illustrate the application of the proposed methodology.

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A Spatial Decision Support System for Multifunctional Landscape Assessment: A Transformative Resilience Perspective for Vulnerable Inland Areas

Cited by 24 publications

References 89 publications

Review of Experience in Recent Studies on the Dynamics of Land Urbanisation

Review of Experience in Recent Studies on the Dynamics of Land Urbanisation

Value and Quality in the Dialectics between Human and Urban Capital of the City Networks on the Land District Scale

A MCDA/GIS-Based Approach for Evaluating Accessibility to Health Facilities

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