Multicriteria optimization of landscapes using GIS-based functional assessments

Grabaum, Ralf; Meyer, Burghard C.

doi:10.1016/s0169-2046(98)00099-1

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“…Over the last 25 years, due to the boom of GIS and the gradual integration of environmental criteria in the urbanization and decision-making process, a multitude of works related to territorial planning, sustainable development, and the use of GIS have been carried out [35][36][37][38][39][40]. There have also been several planning studies, similar to this work, based on multi-criteria evaluations in which different environmental factors, such as geology, hydrology, vegetation, and topography, are analyzed and considered in the planning process [41][42][43][44][45][46][47].…”

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Multi-Criteria Analyses of Urban Planning for City Expansion: A Case Study of Zamora, Spain

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Abstract:This study has established a methodology to determine the most environmentally suitable area for the expansion of Zamora (Spain) using geographic information system (GIS) technology. The objective was to develop a GIS-based methodology for the identification of urban peripheral areas that are suitable for the accommodation of new buildings and services, that are compliant with environmental criteria, and that guarantee an adequate quality of life for the future population such that extra construction costs are avoided. The methodological core is based on two multi-criteria analyses (MCAs): MCA-1 determines areas suitable for building-the most environmentally sustainable areas that do not present risks or discomforts to the population-by analyzing the restrictive factors; MCA-2 takes the sectors that received a favorable evaluation in MCA-1, determines which of those have a lower economic overhead for construction, and analyzes the different conditioning criteria related to their pre-existing infrastructures. Finally, the location of the sectors is determined by a decision factor that satisfies some strategic need of the municipality.

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Multi-Criteria Analyses of Urban Planning for City Expansion: A Case Study of Zamora, Spain

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“…The need for extended activities referring to the idea of sustainable development in the cultural landscape was pointed out by Myga-Piątek (2010b Selman (2008) and luc (2014), among others, and the processes of landscape optimization have been discussed by Grabaum and Meyer (1998), Seppelt and Voinov (2002), Bastian and Steinhardt (2002), Backhaus et al (2002), Wiggering et al (2006, Meyer et al (2009), among other researchers, or, in relation to rural landscapes, by Hoffmann and Greef (2003) and Jessel (2006). Landscape equilibrium can be assessed through three basic levels of sustainable development: ecological, social and economic.…”

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“…attempts to define the pattern of rural landscape optimization in reference books have been scarce so far and such articles have mainly addressed processes of changes in rural landscapes (Myga-Piątek 2010a and their multiple functions (e.g. Healy, Short 2010, Falkowski 2014 or presented formalized algorithms or mathematical methods for assessing the level of landscape optimization (Grabaum Meyer 1998, Seppelt Voinov 2002, Bastian, Steinhardt 2002.…”

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The Optimization of Rural Landscape in the Light of the Idea of Sustainable Development – The Example of Poland

Sobala

Myga-Piątek

2016

Quaestiones Geographicae

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Contemporary rural landscapes in Poland are being changed intensively and adversely. These changes lead to landscape disharmony, spatial disorder, the blurring of individual and specific features and disruption to the ecological equilibrium. This article aims to present general rules for the optimization of rural landscapes. It discusses the causes and consequences of unfavourable changes within Poland’s rural landscapes which constitute a threat to their sustainable development. The authors attempt to identify the major factors to be considered in taking steps aimed at landscape optimization. Landscape equilibrium may be assessed through the sustainable development dimensions: ethical, ecological, social, economic, technical, political and legal. Landscape optimization consists in maintaining the balance within these dimensions.

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“…In such cases, multi-objective decision analysis (MODA) is used as the second basic technique of MCDM that generally generates optimal allocation alternatives using optimization techniques. MCDM is widely used for optimum land-use allocation in land-use planning (Bammi & Bammi, 1979;Gilbert et al, 1985;Chuvieco, 1993;Dokmeci et al, 1993;Grabaum & Meyer, 1998;Gabriel et al, 2006;Ligmann-Zielinska et al, 2008), in the determination of facility locations (Malczewski, 1991;Minor & Jacobs, 1994;Eastman et al, 1995;Maniezzo et al, 1998;Cheng et al, 2003), in land-allocation problem with a shape constraint such as compactness (Aerts & Heuvelink, 2002;Aerts et al, 2003), convexity and contiguity (Minor & Jacob, 1994;Williams, 2003;Shirabe, 2005) and environmental conflict analysis (Malczewski et al, 1997). Besides, Ogryczak (1995, 1996) discussed multiple criteria location problem with MCDA methods.…”

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Determination of Optimum Environmental Conservation: Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques

Çelik

Türk

2011

European Planning Studies

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The type and degree of conservation areas in Turkey legally dictate the kind of land uses that can and cannot take place in a conservation area. Thus, the conservation scheme is one of the most important criteria in designing an urban land-use plan. The aim of this study is to analyse the effects of various conservation decisions on land-use allocation holding everything else constant. This study uses a land-allocation mathematical programme formulated by Hanink and Cromley [(1998) Land-use allocation in the absence of complete market values, Journal of Regional Science, 38, pp. 465 -480] that integrates the geographical information systems with a generalized assignment problem to determine an optimum level of conservation scheme in Cesme/Izmir, a coastal resort in Turkey. The findings state that the proposed technique is indeed very useful and promising to answer diversified practical issues on a more rational basis.

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Multicriteria optimization of landscapes using GIS-based functional assessments

Cited by 63 publications

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Multi-Criteria Analyses of Urban Planning for City Expansion: A Case Study of Zamora, Spain

Multi-Criteria Analyses of Urban Planning for City Expansion: A Case Study of Zamora, Spain

The Optimization of Rural Landscape in the Light of the Idea of Sustainable Development – The Example of Poland

Determination of Optimum Environmental Conservation: Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques

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