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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Al-Jawad, Jafar Y.
• Alsaffar, Hassan M.
• Bertram, Douglas
• Kalin, Robert M.

Titel

A comprehensive optimum integrated water resources management approach for multidisciplinary water resources management problems

Ist Teil von

• Journal of environmental management, 2019-06, Vol.239, p.211-224

Ort / Verlag

England: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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. •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.