Interactive fuzzy optimization for an economic and environmental balance in a river system

An interactive fuzzy approach is applied to develop a water quality management plan in a river basin for solving multi-objective optimization problems involving vague and imprecise information related to data, model formulation, and the decision maker's preferences. This approach, originally pr...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Water research (Oxford) Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 221 - 231
Main Authors: Lee, Chih-Sheng, Chang, Shui-Ping
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 2005
Elsevier Science
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Conservation of Natural Resources
Continental surface waters
Earth sciences
Earth, ocean, space
Engineering and environment geology. Geothermics
Exact sciences and technology
Freshwater
Fuzzy Logic
Fuzzy set theory
Interactive fuzzy programming
Models, Theoretical
Multiple criteria optimization
Natural water pollution
Oxygen
Pollution
Pollution, environment geology
Rivers
Taiwan
Waste Disposal, Fluid - economics
Water Movements
Water Pollution - economics
Water Pollution - prevention & control
Water quality management
Water treatment and pollution
Asia
China
Taiwan
Taiwan, Tou-Chen R
Fuzzy set theory
Water quality management
Multiple criteria optimization
Interactive fuzzy programming
Fuzzy system
Multicriteria analysis
Drainage basins
Water resource management
Optimization
Surface water
Water quality
Stream
Water pollution
ISSN:0043-1354, 1879-2448
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:An interactive fuzzy approach is applied to develop a water quality management plan in a river basin for solving multi-objective optimization problems involving vague and imprecise information related to data, model formulation, and the decision maker's preferences. This approach, originally proposed by Sakawa in 1983, is modified and presented as a sustainable water quality management strategy in which the decision makers and the environmental analysts put forward their views on three major economic and environmental factors: river water quality, assimilative capacity, and treatment cost of wastewater. This methodology is illustrated in a case study of multi-objective water quality management in the Tou-Chen River Basin in northern Taiwan. The incorporation of these three economic and environmental factors demonstrates the capability of the fuzzy interactive multi-objective optimization approach and also works suitably in water quality management in a river basin by the trade-off procedures.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-2
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-1
content type line 23
ObjectType-Article-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
ISSN:0043-1354
1879-2448
DOI:10.1016/j.watres.2004.09.013