A comprehensive optimum integrated water resources management approach for multidisciplinary water resources management problems.
Abstract A holistic Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) model can be difficult to implement and the associated high-dimension optimization problems' complexity often forces the decision makers to downscale such problems. These challenges however have motivated this research to develop a com...
| Published in: | Journal of Environmental Management Vol. 239; pp. 211 - 225 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=135710700&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 135710700 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03014797 EMJ jtl: Journal of Environmental Management issn: 03014797 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2019 vid: 239 pid: 735 pub: Academic Press Inc. artinfo: ui: 135710700 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.045 ppf: 211 ppct: 14 formats: tig: atl: A comprehensive optimum integrated water resources management approach for multidisciplinary water resources management problems. aug: au: Al-Jawad, Jafar Y. Alsaffar, Hassan M. Bertram, Douglas Kalin, Robert M. affil: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde Glasgow, 75 Montrose St, Glasgow, G1 1XJ, United Kingdom National Center for Water Resources Management, Ministry of Water Resources, Baghdad, Iraq su: Diyala (Iraq) Iraq Water supply Resource management Sustainable development Water Watersheds Water management sug: subj: Water supply Resource management Sustainable development Diyala (Iraq) Iraq Administration of General Economic Programs Water Supply and Irrigation Systems Water Watersheds Water management keyword: ε-DSEA Diyala river basin Environmental management Holistic approach Integrated water resources management (IWRM) Many-objectives optimization ε-DSEA Diyala river basin Environmental management Holistic approach Integrated water resources management (IWRM) Many-objectives optimization ab: Abstract A holistic Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) model can be difficult to implement and the associated high-dimension optimization problems' complexity often forces the decision makers to downscale such problems. These challenges however have motivated this research to develop a comprehensive Optimum IWRM approach (OP-IWRM) using a many-objective optimization algorithm to solve complex and large-scale problems. The approach employs the social, economic, and environmental objectives; ground and surface water resources; and water infrastructure for river basin management to: (1) improve the relevant revenues, (2) enhance community welfare, and (3) pave the road for the decision makers to set better investment policy. The results demonstrate comprehensive improvement of all considered targets. The decision makers may reconsider implementing complex integrated water resources management of large-scale regions. The OP-IWRM may extend for country-scale approach as a pathway towards a national sustainable development plan. The large-scale Diyala river basin, Iraq, was adopted to evaluate the approach using seventeen objectives and more than 1500 decision variables. Highlights • High challenges to achieve a holistic Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach. • A holistic OP-IWRM approach using many-objective evolutionary algorithm was developed. • Social, economic, and environmental sectors combined with the available water resources. • The OP-IWRM robustness is evident based on large-scale river basin management problem. • The OP-IWRM support the decision makers' policies for national sustainable development plan. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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