Preventive Indicators for Creating Brownfields

Abstract

Abstract:Although the problem of brownfields in urban territories is successfully limited, it is a negative phenomenon of a sustainable city. Moreover, the number of recently created brownfield territories has become higher than that of the regenerated ones. Such territories reduce the quality of the social and economic setting of a city as well as visually and physically affect the life quality of city residents. Unfortunately, methods for the revitalization of brownfield land have been applied to deal with the consequences of the problem rather than to limit the problem itself. The authors of the article have investigated the aspects to be avoided to not create brownfields. The indicators that enable predicting the probability of a territory becoming a brownfield have been analyzed in this paper. Countries develop and exist under different social and economic conditions. Therefore, there is no uniform and universally accepted system of indicators for brownfield prevention that can be applied in any country or city. The authors have attempted to implement a recently developed idea of indicators for prevention under Lithuanian conditions and have selected those facilitating the identification of brownfields with an aim of identifying the most significant ones warning about the potential harm from the creation of brownfields in Lithuania. The selected indicators have been grouped, taking into account social, economic, natural, building and infrastructure settings of the city and ranked by a group of experts in urban planning. The established hierarchy of indicators in the groups of urban setting has allowed the authors to select the most significant preventive indicators for brownfields. The created OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 6707 system of indicators could be applied in practice as a basis for monitoring pertinent data and tracking their change.

Evaluating the Significance of Criteria Contributing to Decision-Making on Brownfield Land Redevelopment Strategies in Urban Areas

“…Prioritization tools based on sustainability frameworks and MCDA allow assessing requalification options from different points of view, respecting the needs of multiple stakeholders [20,43,68,70]. Due to MCDA ability to combine heterogeneous inputs with cost/benefit information and stakeholder views and being recognized as suitable tool to support the ranking of regeneration alternatives based on the sustainability framework [21][22][23]70], the previously described MCDA method [41] in combination with the expert's ranking was used to identify a final set of criteria in this study.…”

“…In this study, an expert's ranking in combination with a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) method [41] was used to identify a final set of criteria.…”

“…As described previously [41], this initial set of criteria was used to develop the hierarchical system including economic, social, physical (urbanistic) and environmental criteria groups.…”

“…Therefore, relative weights of criteria were established for every brownfields redevelopment scenario T 1-6 by using expert opinions as described previously [41]. The experts were chosen by following strict selection criteria, requiring that each expert met at least one of the following requirements: (1) have three years of experience in spatial planning, economic, environmental protection, sociology and real estate management; (2) have three years of experience in the field of architecture and at least two designed and implemented projects; and/or (3) have three years of experience in policy making with respect to urban development, spatial planning and real estate market.…”

Miesto apleistų teritorijų paskirties keitimo scenarijų vertinimas daugiarodikliais sprendimų priėmimo metodais

“…Disertacijos tema publikuoti septyni moksliniai straipsniai. Trysmokslo žurnaluose, įtrauktuose į Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge (Clarivate Analytics Web of Science) sąrašą (Burinskienė et al 2015(Burinskienė et al , 2017Bielinskas et al 2018). Šie straipsniai paskelbti mokslo žurnaluose, turinčiuose citavimo rodiklį.…”