PMID- 29663693
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20181112
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1551-3793 (Electronic)
IS  - 1551-3777 (Linking)
VI  - 14
IP  - 4
DP  - 2018 Jul
TI  - Controlling air pollution in a city: A perspective from SOAR-PESTLE analysis.
PG  - 480-488
LID - 10.1002/ieam.4051 [doi]
AB  - Strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results (SOAR) analysis is a strategic 
      planning framework that helps organizations focus on their current strengths and 
      opportunities to create a vision of future aspirations and the results they will 
      bring. PESTLE is an analytical framework for understanding external influences on 
      a business. This research paper describes a field study and interviews of city 
      hall managers from the city of Mashhad, Iran, conducted to investigate the 
      application of SOAR and PESTLE frameworks for managing Mashhad's air pollution. 
      Strategies are prioritized by the technique for order of preference by similarity 
      to ideal solution (TOPSIS), Shannon entropy (SE), and analytic network process 
      (ANP) multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) methods, considering economic 
      conditions, managers' opinions, consensus, city council approvals, and national 
      documents. The results of this research study show that creating centralized 
      databases, supporting local governments, and developing smart city 
      infrastructure, with weights of 0.194, 0.182, and 0.161, respectively, are the 
      highest ranked strategies for managing air pollution in Mashhad. It can also be 
      concluded that citizen involvement is key to achieving success in the employment 
      of any management strategy. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2018;14:480-488. (c) 2018 
      SETAC.
CI  - (c) 2018 SETAC.
FAU - Gheibi, Mohammad
AU  - Gheibi M
AD  - Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of 
      Mashhad, Iran.
FAU - Karrabi, Mohsen
AU  - Karrabi M
AD  - Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of 
      Mashhad, Iran.
FAU - Mohammadi, Ali
AU  - Mohammadi A
AD  - Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of 
      Mashhad, Iran.
FAU - Dadvar, Azin
AU  - Dadvar A
AD  - Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of 
      Mashhad, Iran.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20180516
PL  - United States
TA  - Integr Environ Assess Manag
JT  - Integrated environmental assessment and management
JID - 101234521
SB  - IM
MH  - Air Pollution/prevention & control/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Cities/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Entropy
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Air pollution
OT  - Environmental management
OT  - Multicriteria decision making
OT  - PESTLE
OT  - SOAR
EDAT- 2018/04/18 06:00
MHDA- 2018/11/13 06:00
CRDT- 2018/04/18 06:00
PHST- 2017/11/06 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/01/22 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2018/03/26 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2018/04/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/11/13 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/04/18 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/ieam.4051 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Integr Environ Assess Manag. 2018 Jul;14(4):480-488. doi: 10.1002/ieam.4051. Epub 
      2018 May 16.