Analytic Hierarchy Process for Urban Environmental Impact Assessment for Bhopal, India
Urban environmental planning is the major channel to control the human activities from polluting the environment. 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 have been considered to evaluate the urban environmental quality. Because of the fuzzy uncertainty and spatial characteristic of environmental phenomenon, the integration of fuzzy set theory and geographic information system is used in urban environmental quality evaluation 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. Validation of the final quality map has been done through sample data. Accuracy assessment (error matrix) has been calculated. It reaches to the conclusion that FST approach reflects the urban environmental quality evaluation in more detail and in more precise manner than the conventional (Boolean) approach.
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