Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.2009.103
