Urban sustainability assessment framework development: The ranking and weighting of sustainability indicators using analytic hierarchy process

Sustainable Cities and Society

Volumn 44, Issue , 2019, Pages 356-366

  Ameen, Raed Fawzi Mohammed ^a,b   Mourshed, Monjur ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KERBALA   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Iraq; IUSAF; Ranking and weighting; Sustainable development; Urban development indicators; Urban sustainability assessment

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DETERIORATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; URBAN GROWTH;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); IRAQ; IUSAF; RANKING AND WEIGHTING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN SUSTAINABILITY;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85055476590     PISSN: 22106707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2018.10.020     Document Type: Article

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