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1157. Exploring the decision space to support the decision maker's reflection on strong or weak urban sustainability
Invited abstract in session MA-13: Supporting Planning and Sustainability, stream Soft OR and Problem Structuring Methods.
Monday, 8:30-10:00Room: 15 (building: 116)
Authors (first author is the speaker)
1. | Beatrice Mecca
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Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST), Politecnico di Torino | |
2. | Matteo Brunelli
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University of Trento | |
3. | Isabella Lami
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DIST, Politecnico di Torino |
Abstract
The sustainable development of cities requires a focus on what is essential for the global ecosystems and economies. In this sense, it may be useful to introduce the concept of weak and strong sustainability (WS and SS) in urban contexts. Indeed, it is well known that environmental problems have a local origin, even though they manifest themselves globally. The concept of WS and SS involves a different consideration of the relationship between natural and human capital, which can be interpreted in different ways of translating sustainability to decision-making processes. In evaluation, the choice towards one type of sustainability entails a different process of aggregating indicators: this element is identified as the one to be paid the most attention when conducting an evaluation towards SS. To stimulate the decision-makers reflection on which type of sustainability is supporting his/her urban transformation, this paper intends to contribute to articulate the reasoning and explication of the negative and positive elements of the project alternatives. Specifically, we employ the p-ary Choquet integral to represent various strategies across distinct regions of the decision space. To manage the extensive preference information that needs to be gathered, we adopt a parsimonious elicitation method introduced by Labreuche and Grabisch, ensuring the problem remains manageable. The advantages of this method are illustrated through the application to an urban case study.
Keywords
- Sustainable Development
- Problem Structuring
Status: accepted
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