Development of a GIS tool for qualitative assessment of the Egyptian’s quality of life

Elmahdi, Amgad; Afify, Assem

doi:10.1007/s10669-007-9028-5

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“…Sirgy (2012) suggests the establishment of a science of quality of life. The interest in quality of life can be reflected in the increase of works focused on assessment of quality of life in a wide range of disciplines, e.g., health care (Rapley 2003), GIS application (Elmahdi and Afify 2007;Keul and Prinz 2011), land use (Bezák and Petrovič 2006;Muchová and Petrovič 2010), and natural disaster (Jakubcová et al 2014). In the economic and political context, respectively, it is discussed to substitute the GDP as a generally accepted level of social and economic development with quality of life (Stiglitz et al 2010).…”

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Municipalities and Regions as Good Places to Live: Index of Quality of Life in the Czech Republic

Murgaš

Klobučník

2014

Applied Research Quality Life

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Quality of life is associated with the term good life; when we evaluate the quality of life, we evaluate how good it is. The central element of the objective (spatial) dimension of quality of life is the phenomenon of a good place as a place in which there is lived a good life to a varying degree. The paper aims to calculate the index of quality of life at the micro-level of all 6251 municipalities in the Czech Republic based on the indicators of a gold standard and derived indices of higher hierarchical levels of districts and regions and expression of their spatial differentiation. The calculation of the index of quality of life implies that the quality of life in villages is generally higher than in the cities; however, the highest is in large cities with a population of over 100,000 and in small towns with a population of 5000 to 10,000. Quality of life in the Czech Republic is substantially spatially differentiated at all hierarchical levels.

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Municipalities and Regions as Good Places to Live: Index of Quality of Life in the Czech Republic

Murgaš

Klobučník

2014

Applied Research Quality Life

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“…A work by Elmahdi and Afify (2007) presents a GIS Tool for life quality assignment in Egypt. The authors evaluated social, demographic and agronomic attributes and merged them into set of indicators using the Weighted Sum Model.…”

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“…The weights of each variant of the indicator were set by expert decisions. However, compared to our project, the work of Elmahdi and Afify (2007) does not allow to set weights in a dynamic manner. We argue that the most important input is the personal preference of a particular person, because it's hard to find universal optimum across social groups.…”

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Spatial Data Driven Evaluation of City Locations

Muroň

Procházka

2018

Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun.

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Moving to a new home or setting a new bureau in a new city is always difficult. One does not have knowledge about suitable locations; therefore, people are frequently unpleasantly surprised. High traffic noise, long distance to shops or high criminal activity are just few of many possible disturbing aspects. Certainly, there are many data sources that can help to see some particular aspect of the city life. Nonetheless, it is extremely complex and time‑consuming task to browse through large data sets and com‑pare provided information. Therefore, we developed a solution that comprises many different data sets that describe the city environment and created set of straightforward indices such as environment, safety, shopping etc. The users just provide the application his/her preferences and the application finds locations that are most suitable for particular cause. The application is presented on the example of the Brno city area.

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“…Early warning systems for food security are also implemented using geospatial data and techniques (Brown, 2009). Embracing all of the above facets of human well‐being, yet another area of inquiry tackles questions revolving around the broader issue of quality of life and its correlation with access to education and other relevant quality of life indicators (Martinez, 2009), as well as its spatial variability among different groups of people (Elmahdi and Afify, 2007).…”

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Integrative geospatial approaches for the comprehensive monitoring and assessment of land management sustainability: Rationale, Potentials, and Characteristics

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Sustainable dryland management seeks to improve the conditions of people and ecosystems affected by degradation, but it is often unclear which land management strategies work, which ones do not and why. Monitoring and assessment (M&A) can support decision-making by providing this information. As implied by the 10-year Strategy of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), however, M&A efforts have thus far been insufficient or inadequate. We argue that integrative geospatial approaches should be implemented to enhance dryland management decision-making. By assimilating and linking human and environmental data, qualitative and quantitative data, as well as field and remotely sensed data in a spatially explicit framework, such approaches facilitate assessments of both the complexities and place-specificities inherent to sustainability. In addition, they help represent different stakeholder perspectives, promote communication among scientists from diverse backgrounds as well as between scientific and local experts, facilitate inter-institutional knowledge sharing, and create synergy between the UNCCD and other Conventions. Due to these benefits as well as the rapid evolution and increasing availability and affordability of geospatial data and technologies in all countries, it is appropriate to begin capitalizing more fully on them now for the M&A of land management sustainability. In order for integrative geospatial approaches to become more central to M&A efforts, however, capacities and infrastructure must be improved and standards and protocols developed for the collection, analysis, and modeling of data, for the evaluation of outputs, and for the reporting of results.

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Development of a GIS tool for qualitative assessment of the Egyptian’s quality of life

Cited by 6 publications

References 2 publications

Municipalities and Regions as Good Places to Live: Index of Quality of Life in the Czech Republic

Municipalities and Regions as Good Places to Live: Index of Quality of Life in the Czech Republic

Spatial Data Driven Evaluation of City Locations

Integrative geospatial approaches for the comprehensive monitoring and assessment of land management sustainability: Rationale, Potentials, and Characteristics

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