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SAVING THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT WITH SYSTEM ENGINEERING
Author(s) -
Martin Frederick
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1992.tb01495.x
Subject(s) - routing (electronic design automation) , computer science , transport engineering , logging , government (linguistics) , civil engineering , risk analysis (engineering) , engineering , business , geography , computer network , linguistics , philosophy , forestry
This paper describes how we can use the methodology of System Engineering (SE) to quantify the environmental impacts of local, urban projects. The concepts for using multi‐attribute analysis are presented and applied to two examples of local government planning ‐ highway routing and forest logging. This article illustrates how multi‐attribute analysis can quantify the relative benefits of alternative approaches to these problems. For highway routing, the least expensive approach is also the most environmentally sound approach.