Application of Multi-Criterion Decision Making Analysis to Integrated Water Resources Management

Guoting Geng () and Robin Wardlaw

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2013, vol. 27, issue 8, 3207 pages

Abstract: In the context of integrated water resources management (IWRM), account should be taken of a wide range of factors including economic, social and environmental issues. Multi-criterion decision making (MCDM) approaches are applied to the case study in this paper to integrate different objectives into the planning, management and decision making process. A variety of criteria in terms of economic, social and environmental dimensions are identified and formulated for the purpose of MCDM analysis. A set of different management scenarios is proposed for the desired goals. They include reductions in irrigated areas, improved irrigation efficiencies, increased system loss for groundwater irrigation and changes in cropping pattern. An integrated water resources optimisation model (IWRO) is used to optimise surface and groundwater allocation, through which the identified criteria can be enumerated. Compromise programming (CP), which results in a compromise solution located as close as possible to an ideal solution, is adopted to carry out the MCDM analysis for the case study. The sensitivity of different sets of weights and different values of parameters related to CP is investigated. Results indicate that compromise programming is able to lead to satisfactory solutions. Performance of different alternatives is evaluated based on the compromise programming analysis, and potential decisional alternatives are proposed for further investigation. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

Keywords: Multi-criterion; IWRM; Compromise programming; Optimisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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