Application of the Systems Approach to the Management of Complex Water Systems

• Autore: Simonovic Slobodan P
• Pubblicazione: Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Soggetto topico: History of engineering and technology
• Soggetto non controllato: adaptive capacity; agent-based modeling; aggregation-decomposition; ANP; artificial intelligence; artificial recharge; averaging procedures; Canada; CHANS; climate change; community; complex water system; complexity; coupled human-natural systems; decision-making; differential equations; disaster; freshwater resources; fuzzy optimization; groundwater; group consensus; group decision-support system; HEC-HMS; human-nature systems; human-water systems; hydro-sociology; hydrology; impact; implementation; innovation; integrated urban watershed management; integrated water resources management; Italy; IWRM; Kashafroud watershed; Lim river; Lim water systems; machine learning; management; modeling perspectives; modelling; multi-agent reinforcement learning; multi-purpose dam; multiobjective optimisation; multireservoir operations; n/a; neural networks; optimization; perception; performance-based engineering; planning; political processes; regional climate models; reservoir operation; reservoir-river system; resilience; risk; risk analysis; river abstraction; SES; simulation; social-ecological systems; socio-hydrologic modeling; socio-hydrology; sociohydrology; Soft Systems; stakeholder; stochastic dynamic programming; SuDS; system analysis; system dynamics; systems; systems analyses; systems assessment; treated wastewater; uncertainty; uncertainty assessment; water footprint; water management; water policy; water portfolio planning; water quantity-quality management; water resource modelling; water resources; water resources management; water resources systems; wine production; winemaking sector
• Persona (resp. second.): SimonovicSlobodan P
• Sommario/riassunto: During the past five decades, we have witnessed a tremendous evolution in water resource system management. Three characteristics of this evolution are of particular note: First, the application of the systems approach to complex water management problems has been established as one of the most important advances in the field of water resource management. Second, the past five decades have brought a remarkable transformation of attitude in the water resource management community towards environmental concerns and action to address these concerns. Third, applying the principles of sustainability to water resource decision-making requires major changes in the objectives on which decisions are based, and an understanding of the complicated inter-relationships between existing ecological, economic, and social factors. The Special Issue includes 15 contributions that offer insights into contemporary problems, approaches, and issues related to the management of complex water resources systems. It will be presumptuous to say that these 15 contributions characterize the success or failure of the systems approach to support water resources decision-making. However, these contributions offer interesting lessons from current experiences and highlight possible future work.
• Titolo autorizzato: Application of the Systems Approach to the Management of Complex Water Systems
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910557599103321
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