Structural Modeling and Analysis of Water Resources Development and Management System: A Graph Theoretic Approach

Dwarikanath Ratha () and V. Agrawal ()

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2014, vol. 28, issue 10, 2997 pages

Abstract: An attempt is made to develop an integrated system model for the structure of water resources development and management system. The system consists of five subsystems such as watershed management, groundwater development, surface water management, field level development and climate change along with interactions between them. The system is first modelled in the form of hierarchical tree and integrative block diagram for better understanding and analysis. Graph theoretic and matrix models are then developed for storage, retrieval and computer processing. Variable permanent matrix model and variable permanent function in the form of multinomial are the structural models of the system and characterize the water resources development and management system conclusively. Permanent function presents a powerful and exhaustive analysis procedure to generate alternate solutions for the decision makers for the benefit of stakeholders. Coefficient of similarity and dissimilarity are useful matrix for comparing different solutions. SWOT analysis is proposed before taking final and optimum decision on different issues related to water resources development and management system. An illustrative example of groundwater development subsystem is taken to demonstrate the application of methodology. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

Keywords: Graph theory; Water resources system; Digraph approach; Permanent function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s11269-014-0650-y (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:waterr:v:28:y:2014:i:10:p:2981-2997

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/11269

DOI: 10.1007/s11269-014-0650-y

Access Statistics for this article

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA) is currently edited by G. Tsakiris

More articles in Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA) from Springer, European Water Resources Association (EWRA)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().