Mapping Sustainable Decisions - How Geographic Information Systems and Geographic Analytics Could be Integrated in the Infrastructure to Create Public Value. A Germany–Portugal Comparison
Mapping Sustainable Decisions - How Geographic Information Systems and Geographic Analytics Could be Integrated in the Infrastructure to Create Public Value. A Germany–Portugal Comparison

Summary/Abstract: This study examines how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are integrated with social and economic dimensions in Sustainability Assessment (SA) in different territorial contexts, namely Germany and Portugal. Recent open access articles indexed on ScienceDirect were systematically reviewed (target corpus ≈ 174 records). Records will be coded for: (i) country coverage, with a focus on Germany and Portugal; (ii) infrastructure domain (transport, energy, water, health, digital); (iii) integration of social and economic variables (presence, operationalization and data sources); (iv) spatial scale; (v) GIS methods (e.g. map overlay, network analysis, spatial statistics, accessibility modeling); and (vi) the use of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). The results are intended to inform infrastructure planning guidelines and education, support transparent trade-offs in public investments, and strengthen the evidence on impacts on public health and equity.

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