Aspects about the Environmental Quality Assessment in Urban Areas by Applying Multi-Criteria Analysis Methods

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 209-218
Author(s):  
Luminița Grecu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Environmental Quality Assessment ◽  
West Region ◽  
South West ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
Multi Criteria Analysis ◽  
South West Region

The aim of this paper is to make an assessment of the quality of the environment in urban areas based on multi-criteria analysis methods. Three important aspects of the quality of the environment in urban areas are considered in this paper, and an integrated AHP-SAW method is used to assess the quality of the environment. An indicator associated with the quality of the urban environment is proposed. This indicator is used to make a hierarcy of the environmental quality of an urban area over two periods of time. For the case study a city from the south - west region of Romania is chosen.

scholarly journals Environmental Urbanization Assessment Using GIS and Multicriteria Decision Analysis: A Case Study for Denizli (Turkey) Municipal Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Erdal Akyol ◽  
Mutlu Alkan ◽  
Ali Kaya ◽  
Suat Tasdelen ◽  
Ali Aydin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Analysis ◽  
Multicriteria Decision ◽  
The City

In recent years, life quality of the urban areas is a growing interest of civil engineering. Environmental quality is essential to display the position of sustainable development and asserts the corresponding countermeasures to the protection of environment. Urban environmental quality involves multidisciplinary parameters and difficulties to be analyzed. The problem is not only complex but also involves many uncertainties, and decision-making on these issues is a challenging problem which contains many parameters and alternatives inherently. Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a very prepotent technique to solve that sort of problems, and it guides the users confidence by synthesizing that information. Environmental concerns frequently contain spatial information. Spatial multicriteria decision analysis (SMCDA) that includes Geographic Information System (GIS) is efficient to tackle that type of problems. This study has employed some geographic and urbanization parameters to assess the environmental urbanization quality used by those methods. The study area has been described in five categories: very favorable, favorable, moderate, unfavorable, and very unfavorable. The results are momentous to see the current situation, and they could help to mitigate the related concerns. The study proves that the SMCDA descriptions match the environmental quality perception in the city.

scholarly journals Long Term Evolution (LTE) Network Evaluation in the South-West Region of Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-92
Author(s):  
Bamidele Moses Kuboye
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
The South ◽  
Telecommunication System ◽  
Lte Network ◽  
West Region ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Region

The LTE broadband evolved from an earlier Third Generation Partnership Project system which is known as the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS), which evolved from the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). The network architecture of this system has been designed with the aim to support a packet-switched traffic with seamless mobility and great quality of service. The main goal of the LTE is to provide a high data rate with low latency and a packet optimized radio access technology that supports deployment of bandwidth. Hence, this study is based on the evaluation of the LTE network in the south-west region of Nigeria. This study evaluates the LTE network strength in the South-West region of Nigeria. Questionnaires were administered among users in these areas randomly. Thereafter, data were analyzed and research questions were answered from the analyzed results. The results showed that 9Mobile and MTN has the best quality of service of LTE network in South-West, Nigeria, also that the LTE network has not really been active in Osun and Ekiti states.

scholarly journals The Impact of Performance Based Budget (Pbb) on Projects Effectiveness, Quality and Sustainability in Fako and Meme Divisions of the South West Region, Cameroon

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 92-107
Author(s):  
Roland A. Anyingang
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
The South ◽  
West Region ◽  
South West ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Impact ◽  
South West Region

The study examined the impact of performance based budget on projects effectiveness, quality and sustainability in Fako and Meme Divisions of the South West Region, Cameroon. Three specific objectives were formulated to guide this study. The objectives investigated the impact of performance based budget on the effectiveness of projects, the impact of performance based budget on the quality of projects and the impact of performance based budget on the sustainability of projects. Ex-post facto research design was used for this study. The sample of this study was made up 420 respondents comprising of service providers, beneficiaries of the projects and staff of the Regional Delegation of Water and Energy and the Regional Delegation of Public Works in Fako and Meme Divisions. A well validated structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics and dependent t-test. Findings revealed that there exist a significant difference in the quality of roads, water and electricity projects before and after implementation of performance based budget with the quality of roads higher after the full implementation than before the implementation of PBB. There exist a significant difference in the effectiveness of road, water and electricity projects before and after implementation of water projects, and there exist a significant difference in the sustainability of road, water and electricity projects before and after implementation of performance based budget. The study recommended that the effectiveness of the budgetary system should be improved so that the quality and sustainability of projects will be obtained.  Moreover, good budget begets good results.    

scholarly journals Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life of Tuberculosis Patients in Fako Division, South-West Region of Cameroon

2020 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
Benjamin D. Thumamo Pokam ◽  
Pius Fokam ◽  
Theophile Nana Njamen ◽  
Prisca Wabo Guemdjom ◽  
Anne E. Asuquo
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Tuberculosis Patients ◽  
West Region ◽  
South West ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related ◽  
South West Region

scholarly journals Emprego de protocolo de avaliação rápida no diagnóstico ambiental de sistemas fluviais: estudo de caso em áreas urbanas de Iconha e Piúma (ES)

GeoTextos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinícius Vieira Pontini ◽  
André Luiz Nascentes Coelho
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Rapid Evaluation ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Drainage Basins ◽  
Fluvial Systems ◽  
Evaluation Protocol

Bacias hidrográficas são exemplos de recortes espaciais que integram uma visão conjunta do comportamento das condições naturais e das atividades humanas nelas compreendidas, onde ganham destaque a urbanização e suas materializações que, muitas vezes, têm desdobramentos negativos nos sistemas fluviais. Atualmente, o desenvolvimento de ferramentas rápidas e simples para realizar o diagnóstico ambiental preliminar desses sistemas vêm ganhando espaço frente às estações de monitoramento, a exemplo dos Protocolos de Avaliação Rápida (PARs). Logo, este artigo discute as potencialidades de aplicação de um modelo de PAR em áreas urbanas de Iconha e Piúma (ES), no contexto da Bacia Hidrográfica do Rio Novo. Os resultados apontam que em quatro dos cinco pontos analisados a qualidade ambiental foi classificada como “intermediária”, enquanto no outro restante foi “boa”. A utilização do protocolo mostrou-se, em geral, satisfatória, expondo as vantagens do seu uso para aferir a qualidade ambiental dos rios analisados. Abstract USE OF RAPID EVALUATION PROTOCOL IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL DIAGNOSIS OF FLUVIAL SYSTEMS: CASE STUDY IN URBAN AREAS OF ICONHA AND PIÚMA (ES) Drainage basins are examples of spatial arrengements that integrate a joint vision of the behavior of natural conditions and human activities within them, where urbanization and its materializations are highlighted, which often have negative consequences in the fluvial systems. Nowadays, the development of rapid and simple tools to accomplish the preliminary environmental diagnosis of such systems has been conquering space against monitoring stations, like the Rapid Evaluation Records (Protocolos de Avaliação Rápida – PARs). Thus, this study discuss the potentialities of applying a PAR model in urban areas of the municipalities of Iconha and Piúma (ES), in the context of the Novo River Drainage Basin. The results show that in four out of five analyzed points, the environmental quality was classified as “intermediate”, while in the remaining one it was “good”. The use of the PAR model was generally satisfactory, exposing the advantages of its use to designate the environmental quality of the analyzed rivers.

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