Evaluation of Urban Sustainability from Environmental Perspectives (Case Study: District 5 of Municipality of Region 20 of Tehran)

Abstract

With the development of various discussions about the environment and a deeper understanding of the devastating consequences of such development, the paradigm of sustainability in the world was formed and this paradigm can be considered as the most common and most useful paradigm in the century. Given the importance of sustainability,  this paper seeks to identify internal and external factors affecting the ecological situation in district five in form of strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats facing the study area, feasibility and environmental capabilities to  provide the best strategies and considerations in order to achieve regional sustainable development based on spatial-temporal considerations. SWOT technique was used to identify the environmental accelerating and slowing internal (strengths and weaknesses) and external factors (opportunities and threats) and providing scientific and practical strategies in order to strengthen the environmental study area to achieve the sustainable development. Also, AHP model was used to prioritize the strategies. The research method is analytical-descriptive based on field and library studies. Results obtained the combined model SWOT_AHP, based on pairwise comparisons made between the different levels of decision-making and hierarchical model including options, criteria and targets show that the type of defensive strategy  has relative preference compared to other strategies.