Intelligent fuzzy decision‐making system of afforestation in new cities: A case study of the New Administrative Capital, Egypt
The scarcity of water resources, economic development, and environmental protection are the most important challenges facing governments in dry areas. Proper and legalized new city afforestation projects can achieve maximum economic, environmental, and societal benefit. Therefore, afforestation proj...
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| description | The scarcity of water resources, economic development, and environmental protection are the most important challenges facing governments in dry areas. Proper and legalized new city afforestation projects can achieve maximum economic, environmental, and societal benefit. Therefore, afforestation projects are one of the most important elements of land uses in new cities for their effective role in addressing and reducing the number of negatives associated with urban growth. The problem of water shortage in the process of afforestation of new cities can be faced with several solutions, the most important of which is relying on planting drought-tolerant trees and plants. However, how to plan and select trees and plants to achieve desired goals is an important policy-making problem. This study evaluates four categories, and each category consists of a group of trees and plants that can be planted through a case study in the New Administrative Capital, Egypt. A hybrid fuzzy approach was introduced in which participants could use verbal expressions to express their opinions in decision-making to determine criteria that influence the selection of plants and trees. Many criteria must be taken into consideration in the evaluation process, including economic importance, societal importance, environmental importance, soil strategies, disease and pest resistance, and water-saving. Hence, this study uses a fuzzy hybrid multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach that considers many incompatible criteria. At first, the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) method was applied to estimate the relative importance of the six selected criteria. Then, the Fuzzy Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (FTOPSIS) method was applied to arrange the trees and plants of the four selected categories. Sensitivity analysis was carried out to validate the validity and stability of the hybrid fuzzy approach through the change in the weights of the criteria. The results of this paper provide a practical reference for optimizing afforestation and selecting suitable trees and plants to achieve a profitable pattern through economic, societal, and environmental aspects in new cities and dry areas. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-49486cef4be24fe3be8ee96676e8cd812022-12-22T03:54:52ZengElsevierIntelligent Systems with Applications2667-30532022-05-0114200085Intelligent fuzzy decision‐making system of afforestation in new cities: A case study of the New Administrative Capital, EgyptMohamed Abdel-Basset0Abduallah Gamal1Samir S. Teleb2Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Sharqiyah 44519, Egypt; Corresponding author.Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Sharqiyah 44519, EgyptBotany Department, Faculty of Science, Zagazig University, EgyptThe scarcity of water resources, economic development, and environmental protection are the most important challenges facing governments in dry areas. Proper and legalized new city afforestation projects can achieve maximum economic, environmental, and societal benefit. Therefore, afforestation projects are one of the most important elements of land uses in new cities for their effective role in addressing and reducing the number of negatives associated with urban growth. The problem of water shortage in the process of afforestation of new cities can be faced with several solutions, the most important of which is relying on planting drought-tolerant trees and plants. However, how to plan and select trees and plants to achieve desired goals is an important policy-making problem. This study evaluates four categories, and each category consists of a group of trees and plants that can be planted through a case study in the New Administrative Capital, Egypt. A hybrid fuzzy approach was introduced in which participants could use verbal expressions to express their opinions in decision-making to determine criteria that influence the selection of plants and trees. Many criteria must be taken into consideration in the evaluation process, including economic importance, societal importance, environmental importance, soil strategies, disease and pest resistance, and water-saving. Hence, this study uses a fuzzy hybrid multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach that considers many incompatible criteria. At first, the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) method was applied to estimate the relative importance of the six selected criteria. Then, the Fuzzy Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (FTOPSIS) method was applied to arrange the trees and plants of the four selected categories. Sensitivity analysis was carried out to validate the validity and stability of the hybrid fuzzy approach through the change in the weights of the criteria. The results of this paper provide a practical reference for optimizing afforestation and selecting suitable trees and plants to achieve a profitable pattern through economic, societal, and environmental aspects in new cities and dry areas.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667305322000254Water resourcesAfforestationNew citiesMulti-criteria decision-makingFAHPFTOPSIS |
| spellingShingle | Mohamed Abdel-Basset Abduallah Gamal Samir S. Teleb Intelligent fuzzy decision‐making system of afforestation in new cities: A case study of the New Administrative Capital, Egypt Intelligent Systems with Applications Water resources Afforestation New cities Multi-criteria decision-making FAHP FTOPSIS |
| title | Intelligent fuzzy decision‐making system of afforestation in new cities: A case study of the New Administrative Capital, Egypt |
| title_full | Intelligent fuzzy decision‐making system of afforestation in new cities: A case study of the New Administrative Capital, Egypt |
| title_fullStr | Intelligent fuzzy decision‐making system of afforestation in new cities: A case study of the New Administrative Capital, Egypt |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intelligent fuzzy decision‐making system of afforestation in new cities: A case study of the New Administrative Capital, Egypt |
| title_short | Intelligent fuzzy decision‐making system of afforestation in new cities: A case study of the New Administrative Capital, Egypt |
| title_sort | intelligent fuzzy decision making system of afforestation in new cities a case study of the new administrative capital egypt |
| topic | Water resources Afforestation New cities Multi-criteria decision-making FAHP FTOPSIS |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667305322000254 |
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