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A Landscape Complex Values Map: Integration among Soft Values and Hard Values in a Spatial Decision Support System

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The paper develops a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) for the identification and evaluation of the landscape complexity for the Massa Lubrense territory, in the South of Italy. Through the elaboration of a selection of spatial indicators and the combination of GIS and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, it has been defined a decision-making process for the construction of a map of complex values, soft and hard values, that characterize the landscape of Massa Lubrense. The paper explores the potential of a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) in the field of land-use planning, recognizing different weights and priorities according to a complex definition of the landscape and its values.

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  1. Department of Conservation of Architectural and Environmental Heritage, University of Naples Federico II, via Roma 402, 80132, Naples, Italy

    Maria Cerreta & Roberta Mele

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  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

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  3. Department of Cyber Security Science, Federal University of Technology, Gidan Kwano Campus, Minna, Nigeria

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  6. School of Business Systems, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, VIC, Australia

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Cerreta, M., Mele, R. (2012). A Landscape Complex Values Map: Integration among Soft Values and Hard Values in a Spatial Decision Support System. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2012. ICCSA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7334. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31075-1_49

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