Spatial decision support systems
Summary
The course deals with the methods and instruments supporting decision processes in the geographical space. The focus is on multi-criteria decision analysis, with the special requirements carried by space-related scenarios and solutions, and by the participatory processes among numerous stakeholders.
Content
- Situations and cases of decision making in territorial and environmental planning and management
- Spatial decision processes and steps
- Spatial decision support processes and tools
- Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) and its spatial applications
- Collaborative/group spatial decision-making
- Hands-on exercises of MCDM with GIS
- Cases studies and seminars
Learning Prerequisites
Recommended courses
Basic knowledge and skills in GIS
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Expound most importance issues of spatial decision making
- Choose relevant methods for spatial decision support
- Apply most important multi-criteria decision analysis processes
- Organize a decision making process involving many stakeholders
Transversal skills
- Make an oral presentation.
- Summarize an article or a technical report.
Teaching methods
Lecture, exercises, seminars
Assessment methods
33 % spot written check during the semester
33 % continuous control during the semester (seminar synthesis)
33 % written test (120 min) during the exam session
Resources
Ressources en bibliothèque
In the programs
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Spatial decision support systems
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Spatial decision support systems
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Spatial decision support systems
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks