Watershed Land-Use Planning under Uncertainty

I C Goulter, H G Wenzel and L D Hopkins
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I C Goulter: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada
H G Wenzel: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
L D Hopkins: Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1983, vol. 15, issue 7, 987-992

Abstract: A model of watershed land-use planning is formulated that improves on existing models by recognizing that land-use decisions have uncertain outcomes and that land uses change over time. Implications of recognizing the distinction between land-use decisions and their uncertain outcomes are discussed. The land-use changes are modelled using a Markov process. Because of the computational difficulties in determining the return associated with the complete range of possible decision sets, a heuristic technique is required. A heuristic search procedure based on stochastic dynamic programming is described.

Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1068/a150987

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