Sustainability through uncertainty management in Urban land suitability assessment

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 170-178

  Soltani, Saba Reza ^a   Mahiny, Abdolrassoul Salman ^b   Monavari, Seyed Masoud ^a   Alesheikh, Ali Asghar ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

^c K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

analytic hierarchy process; Monte Carlo simulation; multicriteria evaluation; sensitivity analysis; sustainable urban development; uncertainty management

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION; SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT; UNCERTAINTY MANAGEMENT; URBAN LAND SUITABILITIES;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN GROWTH;

LAND USE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; IRAN; LAND USE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84876941692     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: 15579018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2012.0193     Document Type: Article

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