Projektbeschreibung:
Conflicts between sustainable land use, environmental preservation and human activities are becoming increasingly apparent in all European landscapes. Real estate developers, in particular, are caught in a never-ending paradox of moral complexity, balancing the competing imperatives of ecological sensitivity and economic sensibility. There is a need for significant changes in the pattern of land use and construction that will result in communities that are better for people and at the same time less wasteful of natural resources and more accommodating of natural systems. Land-use and infrastructure planning, as well as private development/investment decisions that promote sustainability and environmental preservation are multifaceted. They require the integration of many features. Planning and development are also about solution multipliers whereby one feature provides multiple benefits in reducing the impact of a project on the environment.  Much effort has been devoted by management scientists and analysts over the past few decades in developing and operating Decision Support Systems (DSS) to help managers achieve better specified objectives. The spatial decision support system can generate decision support information about complex decision-making environments interacting conflicting objectives and different types of constraints. More specifically, the SDSS can help public and private decision makers and authorities 1) identify and map meaningful spatial features and entities with respect to vulnerability at certain land sites, 2) set up and operate a social and/or economic participative model to identify natural and human made processes, their associated risk factors, attributes, opportunities and constraints 3) assess temporal and spatial sustainability risk impacts of processes and trade-offs at relevant spatial scales when locating sites best suited for the development of a particular project 4) perform query-based analyses of the attributes of particular sites for evaluating access and other location advantages of a particular site, and 5) for determining its highest and best use taking into account any advantages of environmentally sustainable features near the land sites. We propose a spatial multidisciplinary approach to support land-use and infrastructure planning, as well as private development/investment decisions that promote sustainability and environmental preservation. Active stakeholders will be involved at every stage of conflict/decision identification and management as well as a range of other approaches including stakeholder dialogue and education, consumer education, improvement of political and legislative frameworks, financial incentives, and planning infrastructure.
 
Objectives:
1. To create a geo-spatial database of geographic information on the following feature classes of Paphos District (implementation to a site in Cyprus)
2. To develop a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) and tool that will provide an easy-to use interface.
3. To perform econometric analysis with respect to the capitalization of location attributes (including environmentally sustainable features) on market prices and determine if land sites that have environmentally sustainable features command a price premium.

Request partners (legal entities) with experience in the following areas:
GIS, Decision Support Systems, Sustainable Development, Environmental Economics and
Real Estate/Property Development