Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Use of geological and geomorphological parameters in potential suitability assessment for urban planning development at Wadi Al-Asla basin, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  • Original Paper
  • Published:
Arabian Journal of Geosciences Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

During the planning of urban environment, usually economic and social parameters are taken into consideration. As a result, urban planning areas are susceptible and vulnerable to different types of natural disasters, which cause extensive damages to these areas. In the current study, for the protection of the urban environment, a unique approach of urban planning and sustainable development is proposed. The study area is the Wadi Al-Aska basin (East of Jeddah City), Saudi Arabia. Before the suitability analysis, urban development in the Jeddah area from 1973 to 2009 was applied. In the current study, an integrated evaluation of the suitable areas for urban development is proposed by using geological, geomorphological, and geographical characteristics of the study area as well as flash flood hazard factor. The used parameters were correlated by using the analytical hierarchical process (AHP) method and incorporated into a geographic information system (GIS) in order to produce the corresponding suitability maps. The study area is classified into five categories including very high, high, moderate, low, and very low suitability for urban development. These can be attributed mainly to the fact that in the majority of cases, only geographical, social, and economical factors were used for urban development, whereas in the current study, geomorphological, geographical, geological, and natural hazards parameters were quantified and taken into account.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 8
Fig. 9
Fig. 10

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Alehaideb S (1985) Precipitation distribution in the southwest of Saudi Arabia. Dissertation, Arizona State University, Arizona

  • Aly MH, Giardino JR, Klein AG (2005) Suitability assessment for New Minia City, Egypt: a GIS approach to engineering geology. Environ Eng Geosci 3:259–269

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ayalew L, Yamagishi H (2005) The application of GIS-based logistic regression for landslide susceptibility mapping in the Kakuda-Yahiko mountains, Central Japan. Geomorphology 65:15–31

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bantayan M, Bishop I (1998) Linking objective and subjective modelling for landuse decision-making. Landsc Urban Plan 43:35–48

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bathrellos GD, Kalivas DP, Skilodimou HD (2009) GIS-based landslide susceptibility mapping models applied to natural and urban planning in Trikala, Central Greece. Estud Geol 65(1):49–65

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bathrellos GD, Gaki-Papanastassiou K, Skilodimou HD, Papanastassiou D, Chousianitis KG (2012) Potential suitability for urban planning and industry development using natural hazard maps and geological–geomorphological parameters. Environ Earth Sci 66:537–548. doi:10.1007/s12665-011-1263-x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chakhar S, Mousseau V (2008) GIS-based multicriteria spatial modeling generic framework. Int J Geogr Inf Sci 22(11–12):1159–1196

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dai FC, Lee CF, Zhang XH (2001) GIS-based geo-environmental evaluation for urban land use planning: a case study. Eng Geol 61:257–271

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dong J, Zhuang D, Xu X, Ying L (2008) Integrated evaluation of urban development suitability based on remote sensing and GIS techniques—a case study in Jingjinji Area, China. Sensors 8:5975–5986

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Eastman JR, Jin W, Kyem PAK, Toledano J (1995) Raster procedures for multi-criteria/multi-objective decisions. Photogramm Eng Rem Sens 61(5):539–547

    Google Scholar 

  • Eastman JR, Jiang H, Toledano J (1998) Multi-criteria and multiobjective decision making for land allocation using GIS. In: Beinat E, Nijkamp P (eds) Multicriteria analysis for landuse management. Kluwer, pp 227–251

  • Eyles N (1997) Environmental geology of urban areas. In: Eyles N (ed) Environmental geology of urban areas. Geological association of Canada, Ontario, Geotext 3:1–5

  • Fedeski M, Gwilliam J (2007) Urban sustainability in the presence of flood and geological hazards: the development of a GIS-based vulnerability and risk assessment methodology. Landsc Urban Plan 83:50–61

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kangas J (1993) A multi-attribute preference model for evaluating the reforestation alternatives of a forest stand. For Ecol Manage 59:271–288

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Klaus DG (2013) Implementing the analytic hierarchy process as a standard method for multi-criteria decision making in corporate enterprises – A new AHP excel template with multiple inputs, proceedings of the international symposium on the analytic hierarchy process.

  • Klaus DG (2014) http://bpmsg.com/ahp-online-system/

  • Malczewski J (1999) GIS and multicriteria decision analysis. Wiley, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Marinoni O (2004) Implementation of the analytical hierarchy process with VBA in ArcGIS. Comput Geosci 30:637–646

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mendoza GA (1997) Introduction to analytic hierarchy process, theory and applications to natural resources management, in proceedings of 1997 ACSM/ASPRS annual convention, Vol. 4, Resource Technology, April 7–10, Seattle, WA, 130–39

  • Mohammad AM, Mohammad MA (2006) Integrating GIS and AHP for land suitability analysis for urban development in a secondary city of Bangladesh. J Alam Bina 8:1–19

  • Peel MC, Finlayson BL, McMahon TA (2007) Updated world map of the Köppen–Geiger climate classification. Hydrol Earth Syst Sci 1:1633–1644

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pukkala T, Kangas J (1996) A method of integrating risk and attitude toward risk into forest planning. For Sci 42(2):198–205

    Google Scholar 

  • Rao KHVD (2005) Multi-criteria spatial decision analysis for forecasting urban water requirements: a case study of Dehradun city, India. Landsc Urban Plan 71:163–174

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rozos D, Bathrellos GD, Skilodimou HD (2011) Comparison of the implementation of rock engineering system (RES) and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methods, based on landslide susceptibility maps, compiled in GIS environment. A case study from the Eastern Achaia County of Peloponnesus, Greece. Environ Earth Sci 1/63:49–63. doi:10.1007/s12665-010-0687-z

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Saaty TL (1977) A scaling method for priorities in hierarchical structures. J Math Psychol 15:234–281

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Saaty TL (1980) The analytical hierarchy process. McGraw Hill, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Saaty TL (1990) How to make a decision: the analytic hierarchy process. Eur J Oper Res 48:2–26

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Saaty TL (2000) The fundamentals of decision making and priority theory with the analytic hierarchy process, vol VI, 2nd edn. RWS Publications, Pitsburg, p 478

    Google Scholar 

  • Saaty TL (2004) Decision making—the analytic hierarchy and network processes (AHP/ANP). J Syst Sci Syst Eng 13(1):1–35

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Subyani AM (2009) Hydrologic behaviour and flood probability for selected Arid Basins in Makkah area, Western Saudi Arabia, Saudi Society for Geosciences, Published online, 26 October 2009

  • Svoray T, Bar Kutiel P, Bannet T (2005) Urban land-use allocation in a Mediterranean ecotone: habitat heterogeneity model incorporated in a GIS using a multi-criteria mechanism. Landsc Urban Plan 72:337–351

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Taher S, Alshaikh A (1998) Spatial analysis of rainfall in Southwest of Saudi Arabia using GIS. Nordic Hydrol J 29(2):91–104

    Google Scholar 

  • Thapa RB, Murayama Y (2008) Land evaluation for peri-urban agriculture using analytical hierarchical process and geographic information system techniques: a case study of Hanoi. Land Use Policy 25:225–239

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Thapa RB, Murayama Y (2010) Drivers of urban growth in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: examining the efficacy of the analytic hierarchy process. Appl Geogr 30:70–83

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tomlin CD, Johnston KM (1988) An experiment in land-use allocation with geographic information system. Technical Papers, ACSM-ASPRS, St. Louis 5:23–34

  • Triantakonstantis DP, Kollias VJ, Kalivas DP (2006) Forest re-growth since 1945 in the Dadia forest nature reserve in northern Greece. Int J New For 32:51–69

    Google Scholar 

  • Tudes S, Yigiter ND (2010) Preparation of land use planning model using GIS based on AHP: case study Adana-Turkey. Bull Eng Geol Environ 69:235–245

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • United Nations Population Funds (2007) The state of world population 2007, unleashing the potential of urban growth. New York

  • Voogd H (1983) Multicriteria evaluation for urban and regional planning. Pion, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Wang XD, Zhong XH, Liu SZ, Liu JG, Wang ZY, Li MH (2008) Regional assessment of environmental vulnerability in the Tibetan Plateau: development and application of a new method. J Arid Environ 72:1929–1939

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Xiao J, Shen Y, Ge J, Tateishi R, Tang C, Liang Y, Huang Z (2006) Evaluating urban expansion and land use change in Shijiazhuang, China, by using GIS and remote sensing. Landsc Urban Plan 75:69–80

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yaakup AB, Said MN, Shamsuddin K, Musa N (1999) GIS development and application for planning and monitoring of urban growth in Klang Valley Region, West Malaysia. Proceedings 6th International Conference on Computerization in Urban Planning and Urban Management. Venice, Italy

  • Youssef AM, Pradhan B, Tarabees E (2010) Integrated evaluation of urban development suitability based on remote sensing and GIS techniques: contribution from analytic hierarchy process. Arab J Geosci 4(3–4):463–473. doi:10.1007/sl2517-009-0118-1

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Geological Hazards Department, Applied Geology Sector, Saudi Geological Survey, P.O. Box 54141, Jeddah, 21514, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Ahmed M. Youssef, Saleh A. Sefry & Mazen M. Abu Abdullah

  2. Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt

    Ahmed M. Youssef

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Geospatial Information Science Research Center (GISRC), Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

    Biswajeet Pradhan

Authors
  1. Ahmed M. Youssef
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Biswajeet Pradhan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Saleh A. Sefry
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Mazen M. Abu Abdullah
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Biswajeet Pradhan.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Youssef, A.M., Pradhan, B., Sefry, S.A. et al. Use of geological and geomorphological parameters in potential suitability assessment for urban planning development at Wadi Al-Asla basin, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Arab J Geosci 8, 5617–5630 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-014-1663-9

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-014-1663-9

Keywords

Search

Navigation