A Decision Support Tool for Stakeholder Involvement in Sustainable Water Resource Development

Developing a Decision Support Tool for Sustainable Urban Water Management

Research in the area of sustainable urban infrastructure reflects the need to design and manage engineering systems in light of environmental, economic, social and technical considerations. In the water sector, the main challenge for the engineer is the development of practical tools for measuring and enhancing the sustainability of urban water infrastructure over its life cycle. The present st...

Decision Support Concepts for Sustainable Development

The transformation of the planet over the past century due to intense human activity has affected ecosystems more rapidly and decisively than any other comparable period of recorded history. As a result, the sustainable use of natural resources is presently much more than a simple necessity; current international research focuses heavily on topics like sustainable development, regional planning...

Forest Harvesting Decision Support for Sustainable Development

The principles outlined here apply as much to other types of regional analysis, and not just forestry, although forestry applications show many of the complexities of the general problem. The objective is first to map the forests in some valid fashion, then to predict their growth in the future, and finally to schedule harvesting that both preserves the regeneration rate of the whole forest, pr...

Stakeholder Involvement in Sustainable Watershed Management

A Decision Support System for Planning Sustainable Water Distribution Systems

In this paper, an interactive decision support system is proposed to assist experts who prepare water resource management plans for decision makers and stakeholders. Several visualization techniques such as circle views, grid layout, small multiple maps, and simpli∗e-mail: a [email protected] †e-mail: [email protected] ‡e-mail: [email protected] §e-mail: hagen@inform...