TERI Information Digest on Energy and Environment

  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 3

Analytic hierarchy process as multi criteria decision making for urban environmental impact assessment

  • Author:
  • Anshu Gupta1,, Alok Choudhry2, Vivek Dey3
  • Total Page Count: 12
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 317 to 328

1Centre for Remote Sensing and GIS, NIT, Bhopal, India.

2Image Processing, M P Council of Science & Technology, Bhopal, India.

3Civil Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

*Email: anshugupta20002001@gmail.com

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Abstract

Urban environmental planning is the major channel to control the human activities from polluting the environment. The UEQE (urban environmental quality evaluation) is prerequisite of proper urban planning. Fuzzy Set Theory has been used as an aid to urban planning. In this research work environmental as well as physical environmental components has been considered to evaluate the urban environmental quality. Due to fuzzy uncertainty and spatial characteristic of environmental phenomenon, the integration of fuzzy set theory and geographic information system is used in UEQE of study area, Bhopal (Bhopal Municipal Corporation limits). Analytical hierarchy process has been used to find out the weights of criteria by pair wise comparison matrix. Fuzzy overlay is carried out by using fuzzy inference network (fuzzy operators) to coalesce criterion maps.