Drivers of urban growth in the Kathmandu valley, Nepal: Examining the efficacy of the analytic hierarchy process

Thapa, Rajesh; Murayama, Yuji

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2009.10.002

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“…Thus, this questionnaire is focusing mainly on educated residents. By applying a similar study method to [28,55], we investigated 94 respondents in each study sector. As shown in Figure 4, 18% of the investigated residents had a master's degree, while the others had a PhD (6%) or a bachelor's degree (76%).…”

Section: Land Demand and Supplymentioning

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“…DFs are usually integrated, and it is reasonable that one force can influence diverse forces in the IU process [27], while these forces are working as indicators to grasp and quantify the nature of relationships between the IU phenomenon and its causes, which physically alter land use over urban areas. Although various methods, from probabilistic to econometric, are used to grasp the driving forces in different major highly urbanized regions such as Kathmandu, Nepal [26,28,29], the AHP method [28,30] was applied in this research to grasp the process of IU as it can be used to model municipal planners' observations identified through a questionnaire, and it identifies accurate indices to describe the correlations amongst forces.…”

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Quantifying the Driving Forces of Informal Urbanization in the Western Part of the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region

Osman

Divigalpitiya²,

Takafumi

2016

Environments

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This paper discusses the driving forces (DFs) of informal urbanization (IU) in the greater Cairo metropolitan region (GCMR) using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The IU patterns in the GCMR have been extremely influenced by seven DFs: geographical characteristics, availability of life facilities, economic incentives, land demand and supply, population increase, administrative function, and development plans. This research found that these forces vary significantly in how they influence urban growth in the three study sectors, namely, the middle, north, and south areas in the western part of the GCMR. The forces with the highest influence were economic incentives in the middle sector, population increase in the north sector, and the administrative function in the south sector. Due to the lower availability of buildable land in the middle sector, the land demand and supply force had a lesser influence in this sector compared to in the north and south sectors. The development plans force had medium influence in all sectors. The geographical characteristics force had little influence in both the middle and the north sectors, but higher influence than economic incentives, availability of life facilities, and development plans in the south sector. Because of the spatial variances in life facilities organizations in the GCMR, the life facilities availability force had little effect on IU in the south sector.

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Quantifying the Driving Forces of Informal Urbanization in the Western Part of the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region

Osman

Divigalpitiya²,

Takafumi

2016

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“…This relationship is further supported by the substantially lower percentage of the respondents with higher levels of education in the subsistence farming zone, compared to the sizeable percentage of respondents with higher levels of education in the urban farming zones. The most important factors leading to lower levels of education in the rural areas are lack of access to educational institutions and to public transportation (Thapa & Murayama, 2010).…”

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“…This is because of the centralized governance system and availability of industries and other infrastructures in the urban areas (Thapa, Murayama, & Bajimaya, 2008). This, in turn, has created various types of jobs for a significant portion of the population (Thapa & Murayama, 2010).…”

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Smallholder Peri-Urban Organic Farming in Nepal: A Comparative Analysis of Farming Systems

Bhatta

Doppler

2011

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Farming in the peri-urban areas of Nepal is increasingly characterized by monocropping and the imprudent use of agrochemicals. This intensification has raised questions about the sustainability of farming systems in the region. In this paper, we do a comparative assessment of these farming systems, focusing on organic production in the densely populated Kathmandu Valley. The relative inaccessibility of farming accessories and of modern farming technologies usually leads rural farmers to follow traditional farming methods, sometimes referred to as "default organic." In contrast, access to infrastructures opens avenues for further development of ecological farming in peri-urban areas. Gross margin analysis indicates that organic vegetable production is a lucrative endeavor in the area under study. Urbanites are willing to buy organic vegetables, but the higher price and lack of certification of organically produced vegetables are factors that should be taken into account by producers and organizations working in organic production. We suggest that nongovernmental bodies, along with governmentrun institutions, cooperatives, and communitybased organizations, can play a facilitating role for a smallholder organic growers certification program. They should also support peri-urban farmers in their efforts to enhance the environment and agrobiodiversity.

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“…Considering the impacts and threats exposed above, and following the initial step of AHP methodology (Ozdemir & Saaty, 2006;Saaty, 2008;Thapa & Murayama, 2010), the analysis is decomposed into a multi-level hierarchy structure shown in Fig. 1.…”

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Criticality and threat analysis on utility tunnels for planning security policies of utilities in urban underground space

Canto-Perello

Curiel-Esparza

Calvo

2013

Expert Systems with Applications

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ElsevierCantó Perelló, J.; Curiel Esparza, J.; Calvo Peña, V. (2013). Criticality and threat analysis on utility tunnels for planning security policies of utilities in urban underground space. Expert Systems with Applications. 40 (11) AbstractA utility tunnel is defined as an underground structure containing one or more utilities, permitting the installation, maintenance and removal of the systems without the necessity of making street cuts or excavations. These underground facilities contain all essential utilities serving large urban areas collected together in a tunnel; therefore they are an inviting target for sabotage or vandalism. This paper proposes an expert system combining color-coded scales, Delphi and AHP methods to analyze criticality and threats on utility tunnels to support planning of security policies for utilities in urban subsurface.

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Drivers of urban growth in the Kathmandu valley, Nepal: Examining the efficacy of the analytic hierarchy process

Cited by 222 publications

References 25 publications

Quantifying the Driving Forces of Informal Urbanization in the Western Part of the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region

Quantifying the Driving Forces of Informal Urbanization in the Western Part of the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region

Smallholder Peri-Urban Organic Farming in Nepal: A Comparative Analysis of Farming Systems

Criticality and threat analysis on utility tunnels for planning security policies of utilities in urban underground space

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