Decision making is a process of making a choice among a number of alternatives to achieve a favorite result. Decision making process is composed of eight steps
1. Define the problem: The most important step in decision making, if we define the problem wrongly, we will not have a right solution.
2. Determine Requirements: Requirements are conditions that any acceptable solution to the problem should match.
3. Establish Goals: Goals are important to identify valuable alternatives, so goals should be stated positively.
4. Identify Alternatives: After the evaluation of requirements and goals, alternatives can be proposed in a way to meet the requirements and satisfy as many goals as possible.
5. Define Decision Criteria: Based on goals decision criteria will categorize among alternatives must.
6. Select Decision Making Tool: Decision making tools are qualitative tools (e.g. pros and cons) and quantitative tools such as: Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).
7. Evaluate Alternatives Against Criteria: Alternatives can be assessed with quantitative methods, qualitative methods, or any combination. Criteria can be weighted and used to rate the alternatives.
8. Validate Solution Against Problem Statement: After selecting an outshined alternative, the solution should be tested whether it really solves the problem
Decision making process in the domain of urban and regional development processes represent “weak” or unstructured problems as they are characterized by multiple actors, many and often conflicting values and views, a wealth of possible outcomes, and high uncertainty.
Under these circumstances, evaluation of alternative projects is therefore a complex decision problem, where different aspects need to be considered simultaneously, and both technical elements, based on empirical observations, and non-technical elements, based on social visions, preferences, and feelings, need to be taken into account.
This complexity requires multidimensional approaches and specific qualitative/quantitative methods to analyze and synthesize the full variety of aspects involved in transformation processes, that range •From the environmental impacts of urban renewal to its impacts on energy consumption/production patterns and mobility; •From the social and economic impacts of a specific urban transformation strategy to its effects on landscape and cultural heritage.
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