A pattern of Environmental System Assessment in Urban Management by AHP Method

World population growth and concentrating in cities cause many environmental problems in big cities. The environmental issue is the most important issue in urban management. Audit of Environmental Management has always been considered as an important challenge in urban management. Evaluating of effective urban development on environmental elements can be prevented to negative effective developing. Providing an adequate model make minimized personal judgment of evaluators and causes a more realistic assessment of present situation.

Using AHP and combine it with audit programs, can assist them in achieving this goal. In this study, using standards determine and expert opinion the environment indicators in municipal management and then AHP method is used to determine the weights of indicators and sub indicators. This study presents a model of environmental auditing which was conducted in order to perform a case study in one of region of Tehran municipality.

The results showed that the most important problems in the field of environmental management in Tehran metropolis were transportation and traffic management, sewage and solid waste management, and green space ratio which had some unfavorable conditions in some of the studied areas.

One of the most important issues in performance appraisal is the potential impact of the personal judgment of appraisers on the appraisal process. In the presented model, the weight of effective factors and parameters affecting the performance of urban management environment were determined. Based on these weights, control strategies can be defined. The presented model is able to identify the weaknesses of urban management system in environmental performance.