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The Quadrant Territorial Optimization Process

TOP ©

Frameworks

Levels

Parameters

Indicators

Variables

| Ensure Economic [Progress] & Sustainability

Prevent Displacement Risks

Achieve HUMAN NEEDS

assess existing

settlement

geophysical analyses

policy reviews

+HDI reviews

1) Impoverishment risks

prevention probabiliy

2) Wellbeing surveys

3) Human achievements

4) Poverty/deprivations

5) Land potentiality

6) Proximity/Accessibility

7) Promotion of Culture

8) Recognition of Rights

TERRITORIAL

OPTIMIZATION

Prevent Risks (!)

assure future

resettlement

socio-cultural analyses

TOP-Methodology concept…

is to ensure “usability” of

- Sustainable Development -

to assure sustainability of

developments (!)

ASSESSING/ENSURING

SUSTAINABILITY

THE FOUR GENERAL STAGES

Step1- Community System

Analyses

Step2- Conceptual Framework

(re)focusing

Step3- Location Optimization &

Planning

Step4- Support Policy Database

Programming

Work Outputs

Meta-table, Quantitative

calculations (indices, etc)

Integrated Criteria Model

Framework (redirection)

Integrated Database and

Scheme (geologarithm)

Policy Development

Database (Reforms)

n = [Obj · (Ind/Dim) ] – n1 + n2

The ‘TOP’ Steps uses its

operational tools within the

Quadrant Technique Model

Formulae

Questionnaire

Sets

Ranking

Scales

Averaging

Formulas

Indexing Formula

GIS Tools

Qualifying

matrices

Indicator Optimization formula & matrices

Political

Matrix

Statistical

Analyses

Overall Sustainability

Quantification

TOTAL SD-RATING

= 24.75 %

The Quadrant of

Sustainability Statement

I Regional/

National Level

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Household Level

1 Impoverishment Risks (Ri)

2 Wellbeing & Safety (Wb)

5 Land potentialities (Lp)

6 Proximities (Px)

3 Achievements (HDI)

4 Deprivations (HPI-1)

7 Promotion of Culture (Pr)

8 Recognition of Rights (Re)

Geophysical Analyses: - Land potential (LSSA)

- Proximity & Accessibility

Institutional Reviews - Mission-vision-highlights

- Direction of Responses

Indices Reviews: - Human development

- Human poverty

Community Analyses: - Definition of terms

- Socio-economic risks

& Wellbeing

[Human Aspect]

[Nature Aspect]

[ Existing Indices ]

[Institutional Aspects]

Refocus definition by

investigation area

THE FOUR GENERAL STAGES

Step1- Community System

Analyses

Step2- Conceptual Framework

(re)focusing

Step3- Location Optimization &

Planning

Step4- Support Policy Database

Programming

Work Outputs

Meta-table, Quantitative

calculations (indices, etc)

Integrated Criteria Model

Framework (redefinition)

Integrated Database and

Scheme (geologarithm)

Policy Development

Database (Reforms)

TOP-Methodology concept…

is to ensure “stability” of

sustainable Development-

to assure sustainability of

developments (!)

ASSESSING/ENSURING

SUSTAINABILITY

SAMPLE

CASE 2008

Cultural Displacement

Southern Chile

Rural Community

Indigenous People

Mapuche-Hueliche

Rainy/Winter time

10-day fieldworks

Spanish

SOCIO/CULTURAL COMMUNITY ANALYSIS

Definition of terms

Step 1: Community System Analyses - Phase I

Socio-culturally and geographically focused

interviewees

Two Primary Indirect/Direct Questions

(Q1) <for present state>

(Q2) <for future state>

1 Local folk - individual 2nd question 1st question

2 Local folk - member of an organization(s)

2nd question 1st question

3 Community leaders - NGO Ideally 1st question 2nd question (optional)

4 Community Officials – Government (GO)

Ideally 1st question 2nd question (optional)

5 Community Coordinator, program/project Director(s),

1st question 2nd question 5a - from Municipality

5b - from Provincial

5c - from Region

6 Program/project CO, if any. <Questions can be asked in any order>

7 Project/program

developers <Questions can be asked in any order>

8 Any non-IP respondent/s <Questions can be asked in any order>

Identification SOP-based shifted principles: socio-cultural, ecology and institution

SOP-based goals: what/where to continue, improve and sustain

Causal Framework on environmental indicators (DPSIR/PSR)

Organization Selection of indicators by cross-analysis according to local goals.

Sector-based categorization (according to first 3 layers/steps above)

Database Analysis Risks-based selection and analysis (the 8 risks)

Policy Database Modelling according to results

Justification MDG-based justification of results, or

Correlation to Brundtland Sustainable Development principles


Thematic Screening:

Indicator

Types

What/

Where to

Sustainability Triad/ Dimensions

Socio-cultural Ecological Institutional

D P S I R D P S I R D P S I R

Continue x

Improve x

Sustain x x

Table-checker for identifying and classifying indicators

Taxo (classification) formula:

n = N – n1 + n2 or

Indicators Optimization – Task 1


n = [Obj · (Ind/Dim) ] – n1 + n2

A-Layer:

The Eight

Impoverishment Risks

to be Prevented

Naming:

Human

Basic Needs

and

demands

SD1

Ranking

SD2

Ranking

What to…?

continue improve sustain

1 Mortality

Living

Survival

Needs

<Socio-cultural,

economy>

<Social,

Economy>

Survival

(DP)

2 Morbidity

3 Joblessness

4 Food Insecurity

5 Homelessness Living

Protection

Needs

<Ecological,

economy>

<Ecology,

Social,

Economy>

Protection

(SI) 6 Landlessness

7 No Access to

common property Inclusion

and

Participatn

Needs

<Institutional,

economy>

<Social,

Ecology,

Economy>

Inclusio

n (R) 8

Social

Disarticulation

Indicators Optimization – Task 2


Socio-Cultural

RESULT:


INDICATORS

Ranking

Value 1 Description

Rating

Value 2 Description

1.0 - 1.5 Significantly Very low Below 12.375

Poorly sustainable 1.6 - 2.4 Low

12.375 - 37.125 2.5 Relatively Low (for goal)

Relatively High (for goal)

2.6 - 3.4 Relatively Fair to Fair 49.50 - 61.875 Fairly sustainable

3.5 - 4.4 Relatively High to High 74.25 - 86.625 Highly sustainable

4.6 - 5.0 Significantly Very High 99 Almost sustainable

Ranking and Rating System

H0

HDI Reviews and Equations

GOAL POSTS Maximum

value

Minimum

value

Life expectancy at birth (years) 85 25

Adult literacy rate (ALR) in %* 100 0

Combined gross enrolment ratio

(GER) in % 100 0

GDP per capita (PPP US$) 40,000 100

Actual value – Minimum

Index = ------------------------------------

Maximum – Minimum

HDI = 1/3 (life expectancy index) + 1/3 (education index)

+ 1/3 (GDP index)

HPI-1 = [1/3 (P1α + P2α + P3α +)]

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK | GUIDE

Step 3: Sustainability Conceptual Framework

Institutional Reviews: (Re)focusing triad

Solving-problem: “how-to-assess”

LE

SE

Institutional Reviews: (Re)focusing triad

Institutional

Socio-

Cultural

Ecological

Economic Progress

Triad of TOP

GEOPHYSICAL ANALYSIS

Land Potentiality (LSSA)

Step 3: Location Optimization and Planning

Result

Ave. 2.2

Criteria Suggested

Radius Objectives

Study Area

Proximities

Operational

Ranking

(5-point

Ranking)

River and

creeks/streams < 300 Water source

Relatively within

300m 3

Political point or rural

center < 1000

Articulation/

Information

Relatively within

1000m 3

Reserves/Parks

Management Area < 1000

Management

Participation More or less 10 kms 1

Built up area and

social facilities < 1500

Services

Access Within 1500m 3

Road Network

including culverts,

caution signs and

bridges

> <1500

Mobility and

transport

access

Within 1500m 3

Average ranking for proximity, accessibility and connectivity

development space suitability 2.6


Proximity (PA) / Accessibility

Sample Sites

Ranking of Sites

by Accessibility/

Connectivity

(Built

Environment)

Ranking of Sites by

Agro-Ecological

Importance

(Socio-Economic-

Ecological)

Ranking of Sites by

Ethno-institutional

Importance

(Cultural &

Institutional)

main

settlement Moderate (3) Poor (2) High (4)

Other Sectors Poor (2) Moderate (3) Poor (2)

2.7 2.5 2.5 3


FINAL SITING | Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)

LAND POTENTIALITY

Average ranking for productivity and living survival

space suitability 2.2

Average rating for human settlement location suitability

2.3

MEAN 2.25 GENERAL PROXIMITY/ACCESSIBILITY

Average ranking for proximity, accessibility to

services and connectivity suitability 2.6

Final Siting Rank 2.7

MEAN 2.65


SPATIAL ANALYSES SUMMARY

POLICY DEVELOPMENT |RECOMMENDATIONS

Step 4: Development and Management Database

Metatable of all Resulting indicators classified by dimension and

by objectives

Step 4: Support Policy Development and Programming

TOP Aims

SOP Database B (Basic Needs &

Security Demands)

POLICY

GOALS/SUBGOALS KEY

INDICATORS

POLICY INSTRUMENT

(Suggestion)

SOP Database A

(Development Sectors)

CONTINUE

IMPROVE

SUSTAIN e.g. SUSTAIN QUALITY ENVIRONMENT Environment &

Natural Resources

e.g. IMPROVE INCOME & LIVELIHOOD STATUS Income & Livelihood

e.g. CONTINUE BEST PRACTICES Cultural Heritage &

Tourism

Future Development Recommendations

Policy Development

Recommendations

Complete database

SOME

RECOMMENDATIONS

What to do

CONTINUE IMPROVE SUSTAIN

Integrated Resources Management Information System

Integrative Solution after the TOP Analyses Results

CONCLUSION TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

…LOCAL DEFINITION of SD really matter!!!

Institutional

Socio-

Cultural

Ecological

Economic Progress

GOVT

Refocus* the triad per region

Institution is indespensable

TOP Method is highly

recommended.

SD is an integrated concept … (Summit 2015)

“The pattern and organization of life embraces the whole

(organism-function-environment)

relation; none of the factors involved cannot be defined or understood

without reference to the others.”

Radhakamal Mukerjee on Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

1966

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