A GIS-MCDA-Based Suitability Analysis for Meeting Targets 6.3 and 6.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals

Mentzafou, Angeliki; Blagojević, Momčilo; Dimitriou, Elias

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“…The primary goal of this study is to evaluate land suitability in the Hail region for ecotourism, using the GIS (Geographic Information System)-based multi-criteria decision analysis (GIS-MCDA) method within the GIS platform. GIS-MCDA methodology was used in suitability assessment (Modica et al, 2014;Bakirman & Gumusay, 2020;Doljak et al, 2021;Mentzafou et al, 2021). Based on geographical evaluation and the integration of many spatial layers, the study's research attempts to highlight locations best suited for ecotourism and develop maps of potential sites across the region.…”

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A GIS-MCDA-Based Analysis for Spatial Ecotourism Suitability Assessment in Saudi Arabia’s Hail Province

AL SALAH

2023

Gazi University Journal of Science Part A: Engineering and Innovation

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Ecotourism was developed to combine culture, education, and tourism, but it has now evolved into a fundamental idea for global ecological sustainability. Ecotourism has the potential to help protect natural assets while also fostering beneficial synergies among tourism sector agents, visitors, and local residents. Low-density communities gain from rising interest in low-impact tourist products that assist the local economy. Based on this approach, the current research aims to assess the potential of existing natural and rural characteristics in the Hail area, situated in the center of Saudi Arabia, to underpin the development of sustainable tourist goods. In the research, natural ecotourism locations in Saudi Arabia’s Hail province were evaluated for their spatial suitability. The methodology of the research included a number of steps and procedures, beginning with the creation of a geographic database on the area’s natural resources for tourists. After extracting data from various sources and determining the criteria for the spatial suitability of natural tourist sites, which are represented in a set of natural and human criteria that directly affect the success of any tourist site based on the standards of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing, and standards derived from literary references, a total of 27 highly suitable sites were identified. Based on GIS (Geographic Information System)-based multicriteria decision analysis (GIS-MCDA) methodology, nine criteria were identified and represented in the form of layers, which were merged with each other through the overlay mechanism, after assigning a weight to each criterion based on its importance, to create a map identifying relevant natural environment tourist locations in the research region. The locate region for ecotourism, which covers 24501.225 km2, produced by the suitability modeler tool within ArcGIS Pro software and defined by the presence of ecotourism sites that fulfill the needs and standards of environmental tourism sites according to four degrees of suitability (high, moderate, marginal, and low). From a total of 64 sites, 27 exhibit a high suitability for ecotourism, accounting for 42.18% of all sites. While the number of sites with a moderate suitability rating reached 37 sites, representing 57.81% of all sites.

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A GIS-MCDA-Based Analysis for Spatial Ecotourism Suitability Assessment in Saudi Arabia’s Hail Province

AL SALAH

2023

Gazi University Journal of Science Part A: Engineering and Innovation

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A systematic review on the role of geographical information systems in monitoring and achieving sustainable development goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Baskaran¹,

Velkennedy²

2022

Sustainable Development

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The world has changed dramatically in the last two decades due to human intervention at regional and global levels. The fates of humanity and our planet are in our hands. Governments, international agencies, the corporate sector, and individuals must work together to shift away from unsustainable practices. The U.N. General Assembly endorsed the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development, which comprises 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Several published research supports SDG strategies in the last 5 years. Despite initial efforts, the U.N. declared that the world is not really on pace to achieve most SDG targets. Geographic information system (GIS) has been identified as an effective tool in accessing, monitoring, and achieving goals that have 15 years lifespan. This paper presents a systematic review of published articles that combined GIS and SDG in their research. Because these 17 goals include 169 targets, the assessment may be more difficult if all the goals were addressed. This study focused only on “SDG 6: Clean water and sanitation” literature. Google scholar was used to find the most relevant 25 studies. The variable attributes like SDG target addressed, study area, monitoring and improving strategies dealt, the particularity of GIS were analyzed in the literature review through content analysis. The systematic review has found that target 6.1 received enormous attention, and the inverse distance weightage (IDW) interpolation tool from the geostatistical analysis toolset was widely employed in the monitoring stage.

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Development of an Automatic Water Monitoring Network by Using Multi-Criteria Analysis and a GIS-Based Fuzzy Process

Lagogiannis,

Papadopoulos,

Dimitriou

2024

Environ. Process.

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A GIS-MCDA-Based Suitability Analysis for Meeting Targets 6.3 and 6.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals

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A GIS-MCDA-Based Analysis for Spatial Ecotourism Suitability Assessment in Saudi Arabia’s Hail Province

A GIS-MCDA-Based Analysis for Spatial Ecotourism Suitability Assessment in Saudi Arabia’s Hail Province

A systematic review on the role of geographical information systems in monitoring and achieving sustainable development goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Development of an Automatic Water Monitoring Network by Using Multi-Criteria Analysis and a GIS-Based Fuzzy Process

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