Title: Sustainable coastal zone management of Strymonikos Gulf: implementation of the analytic hierarchy process through an application designed using the programming language C# (sharp)

Authors: Efstathios K. Oikonomou; Elisavet Yiannakopoulou

Addresses: Faculty of Engineering, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AUTh Campus 54124, Thessaloniki, Hellas, Greece ' Faculty of Engineering, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AUTh Campus 54124, Thessaloniki, Hellas, Greece

Abstract: Coastal areas are of interest as they usually include a wide variety of habitats and ecosystems, as well as many important economic activities. Human coastal population increases continually and consequently, there is much stress from all settlements and economic activities to coastal zones. A proposed methodological approach for coastal management plans' environmental strategic evaluation, in the context of sustainable coastal zone management, is described. Therefore, alternative management scenarios for the examined area of the coastal zone of Strymonikos Gulf, are presented. The selection of the prevailing alternative proposal is made through the process of multi-criteria analysis and more specifically, with the aid of the analytic hierarchy process. For the implementation of the suggested multicriteria method, within the context of coastal zone sustainable development, a program in programming language C# (sharp) was designed, in order to help researchers with the selection of the best alternative scenario.

Keywords: sustainable coastal zone management; multicriteria analysis; analytic hierarchic process; C sharp; Strymonikos Gulf.

DOI: 10.1504/WRSTSD.2021.114021

World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 2021 Vol.17 No.1, pp.54 - 80

Accepted: 10 Sep 2020
Published online: 06 Apr 2021 *

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