Mutual evaluation of environmental and social projects and the construction of Imam Ali highway, Tehran

Authors

1 PhD Student of Environmental Planning,, Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Associate Professor of Planning, Management and Environmental Education Department,, Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Department of Social Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract
Evaluating the environmental and social effects of urban projects separately can never show the mutual effects of the environment and the social environment, in other words; At the same time that the environment affects the society, there is no escape from the effects of the society on itself, and vice versa. In this article; The social and environmental effects of the southernmost section of Imam Ali highway - the distance between Daulat Abad freeway and the Shahr Ray ring road and its uneven intersection with the Shahr Ray ring road - located in the 20th district of Tehran municipality, based on an integrated evaluation process with five stages of construction And the operation of the mentioned highway has been integrated. Also, environmental and social mutual effects using the innovative impact assessment matrix, based on the network analysis process in the form of Super Decision software and the Delphi method; And by presenting the social preference coefficient and the environmental preference coefficient, it has been estimated for all environmental and social parameters in both construction and operation phases of the mentioned project. Based on the comparison of the results obtained from the established matrix with the current matrices; by applying the above coefficients, it is possible to quantitatively estimate the mutual environmental and social effects of intervention measures and take a step towards achieving the goals of sustainable urban development.

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  • Receive Date 31 December 2023
  • Revise Date 10 January 2024
  • Accept Date 21 January 2024
  • First Publish Date 19 February 2024
  • Publish Date 19 February 2024