Decision Support System Reflecting Human-Environment Interactions in an Urban Context: A Case Study

Author

Delavari-Edalat, Farideh ; Abdi, M. Reza

Author_Institution

Div. of Archaeological, Geogr. & Environ. Sci., Univ. of Bradford, Bradford, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

28-30 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

250

Lastpage

253

Abstract

The study involves the understanding of biophilia values with respect to people´s views regarding to the urban park specifications. The people points of view about trees are investigated in the urban parks of Bradford (UK) through structured interviews and completing a designed questionnaire. The results are analysed according to the biophilia tendencies and a quantitative analysis is undertaken to explore the popular attitudes considering ethnic groups (Asian and White British). In addition, the results are considered as the input to the proposed analytical hierarchical process (AHP) model, which is developed to assist urban managers as a helping tool to understand people´s view of their surrounding environment in a structured way.

Keywords

decision support systems; environmental science computing; town and country planning; Bradford; analytical hierarchical process; biophilia tendencies; biophilia values; decision support system; human-environment interactions; quantitative analysis; urban context; Animals; Computer science; Cost accounting; Cultural differences; Decision support systems; Environmental management; Global communication; Humans; Jacobian matrices; Nervous system; AHP; biophilia; ethnic groups; urban parks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmental and Computer Science, 2009. ICECS '09. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dubai

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3937-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5591-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2009.103

Filename

5383513