Strategies toward Greater Youth Participation in Jordan’s Urban Policymaking

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Figure 1. Dimensions of sustainable development (Song et al., 2017, p. 505).

Table 1. Profile of experts involved in the study.

Expert ID	Years of experience in the field of youth participation	Educational background	Number of youth initiatives
EXP 1	10 years	PhD degree	More than 10
EXP 2	5 years	MSc degree	More than 10
EXP 3	15 years	PhD degree	Five
EXP 4	10 years	BSc	15
EXP 5	7 years	PhD degree	Five
EXP 6	6 years	BSc	4
EXP 7	14 years	PhD degree	More than 10
EXP 8	10 years	PhD degree	More than 3

Table 2. Linguistic variables used to determine the importance of the barriers to adopting SCP in the housing industry (Tabatabaee, Mohandes, et al., 2022).

Variables	Fuzzy numbers
Not Effective	(1, 1, 1.5)
Slightly Effective	(1.5, 2, 2.5)
Effective	(2.5, 3, 3.5)
Very Effective	(3.5, 4, 4.5)
Extremely Effective	(4.5, 5, 5)

Table 3. Research questionnaire.

Strategy	Convenience of strategies
	Not Effective	Slightly Effective	Effective	Very Effective	Extremely Effective
Building intergenerational partnerships in urban governance	□	□	□	□	□
Fostering political democratization in urban governance	□	□	□	□	□
Promoting political education	□	□	□	□	□
Nurturing Youth Councils in Urban Governance	□	□	□	□	□
Enhancing planning authorities’ capacities	□	□	□	□	□
The Application of ICT Technology in Youth Participation	□	□	□	□	□

Table 4. Results of FDM.

Strategies	Min	Most likely value	Max	Defuzzification	Rank	SDMR % (first round)	Cronbach’s alpha
S1	1.5	3.5	5	6.833	6	.24	.926
S2	1.5	3.875	5	7.333	5	.23
S3	1.5	4.125	5	7.666	3	.25
S4	1.5	3.875	5	7.33	4	.23
S5	2.5	4.00	5	7.833	2	.17
S6	2.5	4.125	5	8.00	1	.22

Figure 2. The most convenient policy based on the specified threshold values.

Song, H., Srinivasan, R., Sookoor, T., & Jeschke, S. (2017). Sustainability in smart cities: Balancing social, economic, environmental, and institutional aspects of urban life. In Smart cities: Foundations, principles, and applications (pp. 503–534). Wiley, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119226444.ch18

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