Ideation and Evaluation in Environmental Planning

Typically, environmental plans involve substantial quantities of valuable resources and affect a large number of people. The final plan is selected by the decision-maker(s), but the objectives behind the selection are sometimes poorly defined. Since judgements can be affected by an individual's reaction to his surroundings, it is argued that the role of the analyst is to improve the information available to the decision-maker(s). Therefore, ideation methods, i.e., methods of generating alternative solutions by manipulating the mathematical model of the planning problem, and evaluation methods, i.e., techniques of processing the generated information, become desirable tools for the analyst. In this thesis, various ideation methods are developed and unified using vector space theory, and cluster analysis is used to evaluate alternative solutions.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sanitary Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Kshirsagar, Sudhir Raghunath

• Engineering, Sanitary and Municipal

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8409975

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/77327