A multicriteria decision-making approach for urban water features: ecological landscape architecture evaluation

Sigari, Reyhaneh Hashemi; Panagopoulos, Thomas

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A multicriteria decision-making approach for urban water features: ecological landscape architecture evaluation

2024-10-31Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Sigari, Reyhaneh Hashemi
dc.contributor.author	Panagopoulos, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned	2024-12-23T11:39:09Z
dc.date.available	2024-12-23T11:39:09Z
dc.date.issued	2024-10-31
dc.description.abstract	In recent decades, the issues of ecology and environmental sustainability have become a global concern in contemporary urban design. Among various urban elements, water features play a significant role in improving the ecological characteristics of their surrounding environment, especially in hot and arid areas. The aim of this study is to evaluate the ecological characteristics of urban water features comprehensively and quantitatively, which has been overlooked in previous studies, taking their physical characteristics into account. To this end, a multicriteria decision-making method, an analytic network process, was proposed to quantitatively evaluate the ecological characteristics of water features. In this approach, four ecological criteria-microclimate, biodiversity, greenery, and human wellbeing-and ten physical characteristics of water features were considered. Twenty-one experts were asked to complete a questionnaire for pairwise comparisons of all ecological criteria and the influence of physical characteristics. The results showed that vegetation and scale, with the relative influencing values of 0.255 and 0.188, respectively, were identified as the most decisive features influencing ecological criteria. Conversely, texture, with a value 0.023, had the least impact. Moreover, it was shown that water features have the greatest impact on the microclimate compared with other ecological criteria. The results were used to compare water features at the Koohsangi Transregional Park, located in a hot and arid city of Iran. The results of this study lead to a framework that can help urban designers integrate ecological criteria into water feature planning to enhance urban ecology and sustainability.	eng
dc.identifier.doi	10.3390/land13111799
dc.identifier.issn	2073-445X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/26537
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.peerreviewed	yes
dc.publisher	MDPI
dc.relation	Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being
dc.relation.ispartof	Land
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Ecological design
dc.subject	Urban ecology
dc.subject	Analytic network process
dc.subject	Water fountain
dc.subject	Water bodies
dc.title	A multicriteria decision-making approach for urban water features: ecological landscape architecture evaluation	eng
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oaire.citation.issue	11
oaire.citation.startPage	1799
oaire.citation.title	Land
oaire.citation.volume	13
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