Sustainable Environmental Strategies for Shrinking Cities Based on Processing Successful Case Studies Facing Decline Using a Decision-Support System
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Materia
Shrinking cities Environmental planning Territorial sustainability Analytic hierarchy process Decision-support systems
Fecha
2019-10-03Referencia bibliográfica
Campos-Sánchez, F. S., Reinoso-Bellido, R., & Abarca-Álvarez, F. J. (2019). Sustainable Environmental Strategies for Shrinking Cities Based on Processing Successful Case Studies Facing Decline Using a Decision-Support System. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(19), 3727.
Resumen
Since the middle of the last century post-industrial cities around the world have been
losing population and shrinking due to the decline of their structural growth models, showing
important socioeconomic transformations. This is a negative phenomenon but one that cities can
benefit from. The aim of this work is to verify what type of measures against urban decline would
be most suitable if applied to a specific case study. To do this, international cases of shrinking cities
where successful measures were already carried out facing decline: (i) are collected, (ii) are classified
based on several influencing criteria, and (iii) are grouped under similar alternatives against the
decline. Measures and criteria focused on achieving sustainability are emphasized. Alternatives
are then prioritised using an Analytic Hierarchy Process designed at several hierarchical levels.
The results are discussed based on the construction of sustainable future scenarios according to the
optimal alternatives regarding the case study, improving the model validity. The work evidences that
environmental and low-cost measures encouraging the economy and increasing the quality of life,
regardless of the city size-population range where they were performed, may be the most replicable.
Future research lines on the integration of the method together with other decision-support systems
and techniques are provided.