SMARTe: An MCDA Approach to Revitalize Communities and Restore the Environment

Vega, Ann; Argus, Roger; Stockton, Tom; Black, Paul; Black, Kelly; Stiber, Neil A.

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-09722-0_9

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“…Beside these megasite-oriented projects, other decision support systems have been developed (Béranger et al, 2006), based on GIS systems, e.g. SMARTe (Vega et al, 2009) or DECERNS (Sullivan et al, 2009) for data management and cartography and for regional scale risk assessment for contaminated sites, SADA (Purucker et al, 2009) or ERAMANIA (Semenzin et al, 2009) for ecological risk assessment, BOS (Tait et al, 2004;2008;Chisala et al, 2007) for the management of groundwater in urban areas and BASINS (Kinerson et al, 2009), RISKBASE (Brils and Harris, 2009) or CatchRisk (Troldborg et al, 2008) for water pollution risk assessment and management at catchment scale. However, these projects do not really propose specific indicators for the quality of groundwater seen as a regional resource (Caterina et al, 2009).…”

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A regional flux-based risk assessment approach for multiple contaminated sites on groundwater bodies

Jamin

Dollé

Chisala

et al. 2012

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

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A regional flux-based risk assessment approach for multiple contaminated sites on groundwater bodies

Jamin

Dollé

Chisala

et al. 2012

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

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“…The Sustainable Management Approaches and Revitalization Tool-electronic (SMARTe) [10], ref. [11] is the result of the former bilateral (USA-Germany) ecological initiative with EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) participation. SMARTe (Neptune) is a web-based and open-source tool that supports the decisions of brownfield revitalization stakeholders.…”

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Computer-Aided Planning for Land Development of Post-Mining Degraded Areas

Białas,

Kozłowski

2024

Sustainability

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This paper concerns the revitalization of post-mining heaps using a developed software tool. Revitalizing degraded areas is crucial for sustainable development because heaps pose numerous hazards to people and the environment, and there are significant numbers of waste heaps across Europe. The applied approach enables us to consider essential factors when deciding on the heap revitalization strategy. This includes heap properties, assumed land use, and various risks to people and environment, financial, and intangible factors. The methodology addresses various revitalization aims, ranging from heap liquidation to different forms of nature restoration and industrial or energy applications. A computer-aided tool was developed based on this approach, allowing the specification of the revitalized heap and proposed revitalization alternatives. It assesses risk reduction, costs/benefits, and non-financial factors such as social, environmental, technological, and political aspects for each alternative. This provides decision-makers with input to manually select the target alternative for implementation. The revitalization planning process is supported comprehensively, and there are additional cost-, quality-, and time-related advantages due to computer aid. The authors suggest future tool enhancements, especially to extend the range of applications and better formalize the decision process.

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“…All these projects have one thing in common, the development and application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). These are tools to support the implementation of an integrated information management strategy, such as SMARTe [8], DECERNS [9] and those developed by Ascough et al [10] and Malczewski [11].…”

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A Method for Environmental Data Management Applied to Megasites in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Barbosa¹,

Bertolo²,

Hirata³

2017

JWARP

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The management of contaminated areas with multiple sources of contamination (megasites) is among the biggest challenges for the Brazilian environmental agencies, especially because aquifers in big urban areas, like the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region, are important sources of water for human supply purposes. One of the main reasons that hamper the proper management of urban environmental problems is a lack of a unified system where all information can be easily integrated into regional studies. To address this problem, a method for data integration and management using a Geographic Information System (GIS) was developed. This method was applied to the case of a regional contamination of an aquifer by chlorinated solvents at a former industrial district in Sao Paulo city, named Jurubatuba, but the final product might also be used for data management of contaminated areas for the entire State of Sao Paulo. The main result obtained was that the site-by-site approach for aquifer contamination management is ineffective. Furthermore, there are many other suspected and potential sources of contamination without any information available after more than 10 years since the contamination problem was discovered at the FIZ 131.

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SMARTe: An MCDA Approach to Revitalize Communities and Restore the Environment

Cited by 5 publications

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A regional flux-based risk assessment approach for multiple contaminated sites on groundwater bodies

A regional flux-based risk assessment approach for multiple contaminated sites on groundwater bodies

Computer-Aided Planning for Land Development of Post-Mining Degraded Areas

A Method for Environmental Data Management Applied to Megasites in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil

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