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Environmental sustainability in cities by biophilic city approach: a case study of Tehran

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  • Keramatollah Ziari
  • Ahmad Pourahmad
  • Bagher Fotouhi Mehrabani
  • Ali Hosseini

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Pollution (air, water, soil, etc.), waste management, and biodiversity depletion are the most important environmental problems of Tehran city. This paper considers the biophilic urbanism as a complementary approach alongside the other strategies and plans to promote the environmental sustainability in Tehran city. In this research, we used D’ANP method to determine the influential and importance weight of indicators and dimensions. The result showed that biophilic institutions and governance, and biophilic infrastructure and conditions are the influencing dimensions, whereas the biophilic attitude and knowledge, and biophilic activity are the affected dimensions. Also, results showed that ‘percentage of population engaged in nature restoration and volunteer efforts, priority given to environmental education, Priority given to nature conservation and education by local government, adoption of green building and planning codes and adoption of a local biodiversity action plan or strategy’ are the most important indicators among the indicators respectively. In general, this paper concludes that the biophilic planning and designing increase the environmental attitude and knowledge of citizens, and enhanced environmental attitude and knowledge lead to environmental behaviour modification and green lifestyle of citizens and thus environmental sustainability.

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  • Keramatollah Ziari & Ahmad Pourahmad & Bagher Fotouhi Mehrabani & Ali Hosseini, 2018. "Environmental sustainability in cities by biophilic city approach: a case study of Tehran," International Journal of Urban Sciences, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(4), pages 486-516, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjusxx:v:22:y:2018:i:4:p:486-516
    DOI: 10.1080/12265934.2018.1425153
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    1. Alessandro Concari & Gerjo Kok & Pim Martens, 2020. "A Systematic Literature Review of Concepts and Factors Related to Pro-Environmental Consumer Behaviour in Relation to Waste Management Through an Interdisciplinary Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-50, May.
    2. Bagher Fotuhi Mehrabani & Saeed Zanganeh Shahraki & Seyed Ali Hosseini & Narges Ahmadifard & Seyed Mohammad Hosseini & Arastoo Yari Hesar, 2022. "How Creative is Tehran? An International and National Benchmarking Analysis," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 162(1), pages 33-69, July.

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