An Index of Regional Sustainability: A GIS-based multiple criteria analysis decision support system for progressing sustainability

Graymore, Michelle; Wallis, Anne; Richards, Anneke J.

doi:10.1016/j.ecocom.2009.08.006

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“…The spatial dimension helps assess the impact of a certain indicator or activity in a closed system of academic campuses [11]. Table 4 shows that indicators related to campus operations and management that have spatial dimensions and substantially contribute to GHG emissions.…”

Section: Overall Environmental Sustainability Of Kfupm Campusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second, it is used for impact assessment process to assess whether proposed policies, legislation, plans or projects are sustainable before their implementation [23]. The quality of sustainability assessment depends on the indicators used and several studies on living green and creating new sustainable communities have stressed the importance of deriving indicators and integrating GIS in sustainability assessment [6,10,11,13]. A university can assess to what extent it is moving towards sustainability based on the following seven core dimensions [24].…”

Section: The Imperative Of Campus Sustainability Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…GIS has been utilized for sustainability assessment of a metropolitan area [6,10]. Graymore et al [11] have developed a GIS-based multiple criteria analysis decision support system for progressing sustainability at regional level. Blaschke [12] has applied GIS for indicators development and sustainable regional planning.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Development of a GIS-Based Model for Campus Environmental Sustainability Assessment

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Sustainability indicators and assessments are vital in promoting campus sustainability. Despite the plethora of indicator frameworks, campus sustainability assessment in developing countries encounters many challenges including lack of, or restricted access to, data and difficulties in measuring indicators. There is also a limited application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in campus environmental sustainability assessment, although campus operations have spatial dimensions. This article proposes a GIS-based model for environmental sustainability assessment of campus operations and demonstrates its usefulness using King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. The model applies spatial analysis techniques, including inverse distance weighted (IDW) interpolation, to statistically assess the various campus operational activities by using land use data to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from energy use, water consumption, solid waste, and transportation. The integration of spatial dimension in the model facilitates the collection and measurement of spatially related indicators, helps identify hotspots of campus operations, and provides better visualization of the existing condition and future scenario of campus environmental sustainability status. This model can assist decision-makers to construct strategies for improving the overall environmental sustainability of university campuses. The paper concludes by highlighting how the model can address some challenges of campus sustainability assessment in developing countries.

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Section: Overall Environmental Sustainability Of Kfupm Campusmentioning

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“…These works have been developed mainly in the USA and in different regions in Scandinavia. A second scale is the lanscape or forest that has been the unit of analysis for the studies carried out in the USA (Rauscher in 1999, Twery andThomson et al in 2000;Hornbeck in 2001, Bettinguer et al 2005;Borchers, 2005;Gärtner et al 2008 andGraymore et al 2009). In Scandinavia some remarkable studies are those by Anderson et al 2005;Kurttila, 2001;Leskinen et al 2003;Store and Jokimäki, 2003, among others.…”

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Decision Support Systems for Forestry in Galicia (Spain): SaDDriade

Pérez¹,

Franco-Vázquez²,

Álvarez-López³

2012

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“…Typically, the MCDM technique begins with the generation of discrete set of alternatives, the formulation of the set of criteria, and the evaluation of the impact of each alternative on every criterion [24,25]. The input criteria are organized in a decision matrix where the rows of the matrix represent the alternatives; each attribute and the cells of the matrix contain the measured or assessed values of attributes with respect to the alternatives [26,27].…”

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Assessing the Geographic Expression of Urban Sustainability: A Scenario Based Approach Incorporating Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis

Kropp

Lein

2012

Sustainability

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Urban sustainability involves a re-examination of urban development including environmental, social and economic policies and practices that acknowledge the role of cities in global environmental change. However, sustainability remains a broadly defined concept that has been applied to mean everything from environmental protection, social cohesion, economic growth, neighborhood design, alternative energy, and green building design. To guide sustainability initiatives and assess progress toward more sustainable development patterns this construct requires a means to place this concept into a decision-centric context where change can be evaluated and the exploitation of resources, the direction of investment, the orientation of technological development, and institutional programs can be made more consistent with future as well as present needs. In this study the problem of sustainability assessment was examined and a method that couples scenario analysis with spatial multicriteria decision analysis was introduced. The integration of a spatial multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) model for sustainable development with scenario planning resulted in an interpretation of sustainability that is more appropriate for local conditions and useful when exploring sustainability's semantic uncertainties, particularly those alternate perspectives that influence future environments.

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An Index of Regional Sustainability: A GIS-based multiple criteria analysis decision support system for progressing sustainability

Cited by 105 publications

References 30 publications

The Development of a GIS-Based Model for Campus Environmental Sustainability Assessment

The Development of a GIS-Based Model for Campus Environmental Sustainability Assessment

Decision Support Systems for Forestry in Galicia (Spain): SaDDriade

Assessing the Geographic Expression of Urban Sustainability: A Scenario Based Approach Incorporating Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis

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