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Urban development planning is the process of developing long-range policies for the future of a region, taking into consideration technical, political, social and environmental aspects. The need to incorporate the prementioned aspects, resulted in the increasing use of multicriteria approaches. One of the most common problems of urban development planning is to choose among various alternative projects. Motivated by the sustainable utilization of Athens’ Hellinikon airport, this paper proposes a methodology for the selection of the best solution for the development of the urban site under certain preconditions. The main purpose of this multicriteria methodology is to assess five alternative investment proposals for the development of the urban site. Since local policy makers are considered to be the stakeholders, the implemented evaluation method includes several criteria that are based on three main categories: economy, environment and society. The selected criteria represent relevant, controllable and measurable elements and could be used as sustainable development indicators. A questionnaire is designed to gather information from stakeholders to evaluate the degree of influence of each indicator on the selection of the proposals. A sensitivity analysis has been carried out giving different preferences from the stakeholders. This paper offers an evaluation framework based on a blend of three types of approaches, the additive value model, the Electre III and the Promethee II. The three methods have been developed in the past, however, this paper tries to offer a cohesive framework, which can be used for the evaluation of urban development proposals in the light of economic, environmental and social criteria. The results obtained by the multicriteria evaluation method showed that the alternative proposals including the exploitation of the examined region in all land uses, marked the best performances in almost all the criteria.
C. Nikoloudis; K. Aravossis; E. Strantzali; N. Chrysanthopoulos. A novel multicriteria methodology for evaluating urban development proposals. Journal of Cleaner Production 2020, 263, 120796 .
AMA StyleC. Nikoloudis, K. Aravossis, E. Strantzali, N. Chrysanthopoulos. A novel multicriteria methodology for evaluating urban development proposals. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020; 263 ():120796.
Chicago/Turabian StyleC. Nikoloudis; K. Aravossis; E. Strantzali; N. Chrysanthopoulos. 2020. "A novel multicriteria methodology for evaluating urban development proposals." Journal of Cleaner Production 263, no. : 120796.
Natural gas as fuel for electricity production has significant advantages, such as the reduction of environmental emissions and the lower operational cost. Due to the flexibility of gas engines, the exploitation of renewable energy sources in an area, can be maximized. The main objective of the present study is to investigate the possibility of LNG supply for sustainable electricity production in insular small-scale electricity systems. A novel multicriteria evaluation model has been developed, based on the methods of Additive Value Model, PROMETHEE and Simos approach. A set of coherent criteria has been selected, that fits perfectly with the demands of this type of problem. The proposed methodology has been implemented in four Greek islands (as they are the most indicative examples and with future perspectives to use natural gas for electricity production) and in one power plant in the mainland (as another typical example of small-scale electricity production). The evaluation process included four supply alternatives that cover the annual fuel demands of the examined regions. The obtaining ranking showed that the development of a network supplying individual small-scale terminals in a roundtrip is preferable, compared to the separate supply of each terminal.
Eleni Strantzali; Konstantinos Aravossis; Georgios A. Livanos; Nikos Chrysanthopoulos. A Novel Multicriteria Evaluation of Small-Scale LNG Supply Alternatives: The Case of Greece. Energies 2018, 11, 903 .
AMA StyleEleni Strantzali, Konstantinos Aravossis, Georgios A. Livanos, Nikos Chrysanthopoulos. A Novel Multicriteria Evaluation of Small-Scale LNG Supply Alternatives: The Case of Greece. Energies. 2018; 11 (4):903.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEleni Strantzali; Konstantinos Aravossis; Georgios A. Livanos; Nikos Chrysanthopoulos. 2018. "A Novel Multicriteria Evaluation of Small-Scale LNG Supply Alternatives: The Case of Greece." Energies 11, no. 4: 903.