Collaborative spatial decision making empowering urban flood governance toward city resilience.

ABSTRACT: Urban flood management increasingly relies on adaptive and integrated systems alongside conventional structural measures. Rapid urbanization has escalated the complexity of managing floods. This paper proposes a novel, integrated spatial decision-making approach to enhance flood governance. The study emphasizes the collaborative engagement of stakeholders, including municipal authorities, water agencies, and local communities, within a GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) framework. A toolbox developed in ArcGIS incorporates the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). While previous studies often treat spatial analysis and stakeholder participation separately, our model integrates these within a spatial planning support system (SPSS). Results from a case study in Tehran, Iran, demon

SUBMITTER: Radmehr A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12749824 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature