A Review of Multiple Criteria Analysis for Water Resource Planning and Management

Stefan Hajkowicz () and Kerry Collins

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2007, vol. 21, issue 9, 1553-1566

Abstract: Multiple criteria analysis (MCA) is a framework for ranking or scoring the overall performance of decision options against multiple objectives. The approach has widespread and growing application in the field of water resource management. This paper reviews 113 published water management MCA studies from 34 countries. It finds that MCA is being heavily used for water policy evaluation, strategic planning and infrastructure selection. A wide range of MCA methods are being used with the fuzzy set analysis, paired comparison and outranking methods being most common. The paper also examines the motivations for adopting MCA in water management problems and considers future research directions. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2007

Keywords: multiple criteria analysis; decision making; water resource planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/s11269-006-9112-5

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