Evaluation of the Human Settlement in Lhasa with Intuitionistic Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process

Abstract

The human settlement (HS) is a significant issue that concerns everyone’s daily life and work. With the development of urbanization and industrialization, urban HS is confronted with a good many severe problems. However, the deficiency of a scientific assessment of the HS may lead to an inadequate awareness of the development statuses and characteristics of the HSs in different regions and within a single region, which is detrimental to the sustainability of the HS. Thus, it is necessary to assess the HS, and this paper aims to enhance and encourage the sustainable development (SD) of the HS through the effective evaluation of the HS in Lhasa. Firstly, we review the existing literature on the HS. Secondly, based on our understanding of the regional characteristics of Lhasa and the connotation of the HS, we construct an evaluation index system. Again, according to the fuzziness and uncertainty of the HS itself, and the advantages of the intuitionistic fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (IFAHP) in accurately describing pairwise comparison judgments of the decision makers (DMs), we use the IFAHP to evaluate the HS in Lhasa in terms of ecological environment, residential environment, and economic and social environment, based on which we give some suggestions to promote the SD of the HS and conclude that the IFAHP can express the opinions of the DMs comprehensively and is immensely helpful for the evaluation of the HS in Lhasa.