期刊名称：The Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa (JSDA)
电子版ISSN：1520-5509
出版年度：2010
卷号：12
期号：3
出版社：Institute of Sustainable Development in Africa
摘要：To make the MDGs a reality, especially as it affects the built environment, and to conform with the
UN Agenda 21 and Habitat Agenda summed up in the concept of urban physical sustainability, there
is a need to rapidly improve the quality of decisions on land use, conversion and urban renewal in
developing countries, especially with regards to physical developments. The potentials of SDSS in
determining optimum sites for physical developments within the built environment was the focus of
this study. The SDSS developed took into consideration existing and future planning scenarios with
the aim of creating a sustainable built environment. To do this, a framework for capturing existing
landuse was generated and the SDSS used to generate physical development expansion scenarios of
the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. The system facilitated integrated procedures for
determining optimal sites for incremental physical development in such a way as to minimize impact
on other aspects of development. The application of this system shows that planning especially as it
relate to the urban environment can be made more flexible, dynamic and responsive to timely
decisions on geographic space
