Sustainable development conflict over freeway construction |
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Authors: | M Reza Ghanbarpour Keith William Hipel |
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Institution: | (1) Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Mazandaran, P.O. Box 737, Sari, Iran;(2) Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, Canada, N2L 3G1 |
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Abstract: | Environmental disputes arise due to opposing views of various groups about their environmental concerns and their economic
or developmental interests. Development and protection of the environment constitute two main contradictory objectives within
the sustainable development paradigm, which are often in conflict. The decision support system, GMCR II, which implements
the graph model for conflict resolution, is employed to model and analyze an environmental dispute arising over the construction
of a new freeway between the Iranian capital, Tehran, and the city of Chalous located in the north of the country. This study
demonstrates that the graph model for conflict resolution can be used as a methodology to promote a reasonable balance between
economic development and environmental protection from a strategic viewpoint. In addition to systematically modelling the
conflict by putting the existing information into proper perspective, it is shown how conflict analysis can be used for comparing
alternative scenarios and predicting possible future outcomes.
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Keywords: | Conflict resolution Decision support system Freeway construction Strategic analysis Sustainable development |
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