Development of a GIS tool for qualitative assessment of the Egyptian’s quality of life |
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Authors: | Amgad Elmahdi Assem Afify |
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Institution: | (1) Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, the University of Melbourne, Uni-3010 Victoria, Australia;(2) Strategic Research Unit, National Water Research Center, Egypt, Delta Barrage |
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Abstract: | A frame work was presented for the assessment of the quality of life through the development of different indicators applied
for Egypt. This paper focuses on the assessment of the quality of life using previously developed indicators in the first
part of the study. A GIS user-friendly interface was developed to enhance the presentation of the study. This enables non
technical users to directly use the developed GIS application to explore different concerns.
Three cases were demonstrated in this paper, where an assessment of the quality of life of farmers, civilians, and agricultural
investors was attained under specific scenario in each case. Assessment for other cases can still be made by browsing through
the dropdown menu for each interest group under the selected scenario. Based on the demonstrated results for the three groups
of people, it was found that the quality of life for a certain group of people under the strict scenario is in general less
than the quality of life for the same group under the relax scenario. |
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Keywords: | Economic and social indicators GIS Quality of life Water resources |
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