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SUMMARY:A new integrated multi-criteria spatial decision support system fo
 r urban energy planning in the built environment
DTSTART:20190507T163000
DTEND:20190507T173000
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DESCRIPTION:Sara Torabi\, Arch\, Ph.D.\, Interuniversity Department of Reg
 ional & Urban Studies and Planning-DIST\, Politecnico di Torino (PoliTo). 
 Sara Torabi holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Development at the Interun
 iversity Department of Studies and Regional and Urban Planning (DIST) at P
 olitecnico di Torino. She also has collaborated on several European and Na
 tional projects such as IEA-EBC Annex 66\, EEB-Buildings with Zero Energy 
 Consumption in Intelligent Urban District\, SHAPE ENERGY and DIMMER-Distri
 ct Information Modelling and Management for Energy Reduction and spent per
 iod of her Ph.D. research at the École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausan
 ne (EPFL) in Switzerland at the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laborato
 ry (LESO-PB). For the time being Sara Torabi is a Postdoctoral researcher 
 at the Urban Sustainability and Security Laboratory for Social Challenges 
 (S3 + Lab) at Politecnico di Torino while her main research\, focuses on t
 he field of Impact Assessment of sustainable Indicators for the city scale
 \, Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support System (MC-SDSS) for urban regen
 eration planning. She also deals with the integration of participatory dec
 ision-making processes in planning purposes\, organizing several focus gro
 ups and workshops involving real stakeholders. She has developed a new MC-
 SDSS\, which is an interactive energy plug-in in the Geographic Informatio
 n System (GIS) using the CommunityViz software. The MC-SDSS tool can explo
 re a range of possible futures for assisting urban planners\, policymakers
  and built environment stakeholders in their efforts to plan\, design and 
 manage low-carbon cities. Furthermore\, she is an author of numerous inter
 national publications.\nThe research focuses on energy consumption modelli
 ng based on bottom-up methods to evaluate the current status of energy con
 sumption and different future energy saving scenarios promoting sustainabl
 e urban planning. However\, the choice among urban energy planning scenari
 os is extensively based on multi-actors and multi-criteria aspects. For th
 is purpose\, stakeholder-oriented approach plays a key role in implementin
 g the effective strategies for urban and regional adaptation. The research
 \, therefore\, is also dealing with the integration of participative decis
 ional processes of urban energy planning by organizing different focus gro
 ups involving real stakeholders. The talk will illustrate the result of th
 e development of a new Multi Criteria Spatial Decision Support System (MC-
 SDSS)\, which is an interactive energetic plug-in in Geographic Informatio
 n System (GIS) environment using CommunityViz. The new MC-SDSS is intended
  to facilitate the decisional process for stakeholders who can ask “what
 -if” questions and visualize “if then” scenarios in a real-time.
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