Current decision-making practices used to determine water allocations between competing uses in Australia generally disregard the social, cultural and political impacts of these types of decisions and to a lesser extent the economics. Tokenistic community consultation, rather than meaningful and purposeful participation in the water allocation decision-making process, results in a lack of commu...

In view of the characteristics of multi-objective and uncertainty and complexity of the water resources allocation, the optimization of water resources allocation schemes can be regarded as a multi-objective grey relational decision-making procedure. This paper, integrating the grey relational decision-making method and the evidence theory, researches on the optimization method of allocation sc...

Introduced plants often face new environmental conditions in their non-native ranges. To become invasive, they need to overcome several biotic and abiotic filters that may trigger adaptive changes in life-history traits, like post-germination processes. Such early life cycle traits may play a crucial role in the colonization and establishment success of invasive plants. As a previous study reve...

in a region, optimal allocation of lands to various agricultural products is one of the most important issue associated with optimal use of agricultural resources. meta-goal programming is one of the multiple criteria decision models. this programming provides more flexible decisions for decision makers than other goal programming. in the current study, optimal cropping pattern was determined u...

A System Dynamics simulation model of the Lerma-Chapala watershed, in Mexico, was built to develop an improved Surface Water Distribution Agreement among five states of the Mexican Republic and the national water authorities. The model, the main analytical tool in a politically charged and confrontational water resources allocation, has proven to be very useful for conflict resolution because: ...

This paper focuses on the development of a new resource allocation scheme for video streaming in wireless networks. The technique utilizes the 2-weak burstiness curve which has been defined as the (1− 2)-percentile of the maximum burstiness curve. We show that the 2-weak burstiness curve is a convex non-increasing function of the service rate. We also devise a “water-filling” algorithm to obtai...

green water and blue water; renewable and nonrenewable water resources; water allocation and water allocation

In this paper, a two-stage fuzzy random programming for a management problem in terms of water resources allocation having fuzzy random variable coefficients and decision vector of random variables is studied. The first results show the fact that a fuzzy pseudorandom optimal solution of a two-stage fuzzy random programming may be resolved into a two of pseudorandom optimal solutions of relative...

Traditionally, surface and ground water resources have been managed as separate resources in Australia, with the result that interactions between the two components have not been duly considered in the development of management strategies. A more integrated approach is required to evaluate the impacts of groundwater extraction on streamflow regime, and eliminate the potential for over-allocatio...