A Combined MOIP–MCDA Approach to Building and Screening Atmospheric Pollution Control Strategies in Urban Regions

This article presents a methodological approach for the formulation of control strategies capable of reducing atmospheric pollution at the standards set by European legislation. The approach was implemented in the greater area of Thessaloniki and was part of a project aiming at the compliance with a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Environmental management (New York) Jg. 38; H. 1; S. 149 - 160
Hauptverfasser: Mavrotas, George, Ziomas, Ioannis C., Diakouaki, Danae
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States Springer Nature B.V 01.07.2006
Schlagworte:
Air pollution
Air Pollution - legislation & jurisprudence
Air Pollution - prevention & control
Air pollution control
Air quality
Air quality standards
Cities
compliance
Conservation of Natural Resources - economics
Conservation of Natural Resources - legislation & jurisprudence
Conservation of Natural Resources - methods
control methods
Decision Making
Environmental management
Greece
Humans
Integer programming
issues and policy
laws and regulations
Legislation
Models, Theoretical
Ozone - analysis
pollution control
Public Policy
screening
Studies
Urban areas
Greece
Greece, Kentriki Makedonia, Thessaloniki
ISSN:0364-152X, 1432-1009
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Zusammenfassung:This article presents a methodological approach for the formulation of control strategies capable of reducing atmospheric pollution at the standards set by European legislation. The approach was implemented in the greater area of Thessaloniki and was part of a project aiming at the compliance with air quality standards in five major cities in Greece. The methodological approach comprises two stages: in the first stage, the availability of several measures contributing to a certain extent to reducing atmospheric pollution indicates a combinatorial problem and favors the use of Integer Programming. More specifically, Multiple Objective Integer Programming is used in order to generate alternative efficient combinations of the available policy measures on the basis of two conflicting objectives: public expenditure minimization and social acceptance maximization. In the second stage, these combinations of control measures (i.e., the control strategies) are then comparatively evaluated with respect to a wider set of criteria, using tools from Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, namely, the well-known PROMETHEE method. The whole procedure is based on the active involvement of local and central authorities in order to incorporate their concerns and preferences, as well as to secure the adoption and implementation of the resulting solution.
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ISSN:0364-152X
1432-1009
DOI:10.1007/s00267-005-0111-8