Assessing Community Well-being Risk for Supporting Decisions on Investments for Social Sustainability

Community well-being is important for building housing, income, food, and health security. The COMEAI causal model is available for evaluating the risk to housing, income, food, and health security criteria. The model has a potential for improvement to account for the lack of critical practical application and evidence-based literature support. This research aims to validate the indicators of well-being criteria and improve the existing risk assessment model for evaluating projects to assist risk informed decision-making. The existing COMEAI model will be improved to incorporate uncertainty using the available literature and expert opinions on the types of indicators, and weights of criteria and indicators. The evaluated community well-being risk score will be compared with the risk level estimated using the existing model. Based on this, an improved risk assessment model will be proposed.

Faculty Supervisor:

Rehan Sadiq;Kasun Hewage

Student:

Partner:

PRISM Institute

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

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