Assessment Competitiveness Social and Environmental of urban
(Case study: provinces of the country)
Subject Areas :
environmental management
Hossein Nazmfar
1
,
Ali Eshgi
2
,
Saredeh Alavi
3
1 - Associate Professor of Urban Planning, University of Mohaghegh Ardabil.
2 - Graduate Student inUurban Planning University of Mohaghegh Ardabil.
3 - M.Sc, Urban Planning University of Mohaghegh Ardabil.
Received: 2015-10-29
Accepted : 2016-09-17
Published : 2019-12-22
Keywords:
social and environmental integration,
Urban Competitiveness,
Iran,
Kandrst,
Abstract :
Introduction: Now competitiveness is a central issue in the world and the use of it, as a tool, is mentioned to achieve sustainable development. Many researchers consider the economic competitiveness equals success, but urban competitiveness should be examined from a broader perspective on aspects of economic and non-economic aspects in addition to the stress of urban life. Due to the vacuum in the field of research aimed at evaluating and ranking states are conducted with an emphasis on social and environmental dimensions.
Material and Methods: This study uses 36 indicators of social and environmental dimension to urban competitiveness evaluation techniques using multi-criteria decision making (MCDM). Methods the study population consisted of descriptive analysis of all the provinces in 1390. The models used to analyze the data and SAW HAVE eventually integrated Kandrst technique and competitiveness was divided to 5 groups can be very high, high, moderate, low and very low. To find the coefficients of each indicator used is the Shannon entropy.
Results and Discussion: Based on Kandrst mode, the provinces terms of social and environmental indicators of urban competitiveness, there are wide differences. So that the difference between Tehran Province (ranked first) with a score of 30 and Semnan (bottom) with a score of 25, was too high (55) and this gap is caused by an imbalance in land use. Final ranking shows that Tehran, Tehran, Khuzestan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Isfahan and Khorasan Razavi is very high competitiveness and regions in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer, Ardabil, Yazd, Golestan, Semnan Bakhtiari and competitiveness can be very low.
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Rabieh, M., Khajuee, M. (2013). Explanation of Competitiveness Strategies of Tehran City. Journal of Strategic Management Studies, 4(15), 37-56. (In Persian)
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Momeni, M. (1998). Principles and Methods of Regional Planning, Rational Publications. (In Persian)
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Pourtahari, M. (2014). Application of Multi-Index Decision Making Methods in Geography, Tehran, University of Humanities Textbooks. (In Persian)
Azar, A. (2007). Evaluation of Provincial Business Organizations with the MADM Approach, Journal of Business Research, 10 (39), 157-189. (In Persian)
Azar, A. Rajabzadeh, A. (2014). Applied Decision Making in the MADM Approach, Tehran, Danesh Publication. (In Persian)
Iran Statistics Center Website (2015). (In Persian)
Ekhtiari, M. (2012). Introduction of an Advanced VIKOR method for Credit Rating of Customers of Banks. Industrial Management Studies, 9(25), 161-179. (In Persian)
Yongqiang, L. (2005). Conceptual Mode lfor Urban Competitiveness. Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, sep. 4(9).
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