Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
6292557 Ecological Indicators 2017 11 Pages PDF
Abstract
Effective water allocation among multiple jurisdictions is a key instrument to improve water use efficiency within the basin scale. To achieve equitable and reasonable water allocation, natural, socio-economic, and ecological conditions within a specific basin need to be systematically considered. Based on the main principles of equitable and reasonable water allocation that were defined by UN Watercourses Convention, an integrated multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) with bankruptcy rules (IMCDM-BR) under multiple hydrological constraints were proposed to allocate trans-jurisdiction water resources in Guanting reservoir basin (GRB), a shared basin between Zhangjiakou and Beijing in China. Projection pursuit (PP), as one of an effective MCDM approach, was employed to synthesize values of the related principles, which were ranked as weights for the corresponding water claims by relevant agents. Then, the weighted bankruptcy rules (BR) with multiple hydrological constraints were applied to allocate water among the related agents of the studying basin. The results of ordinary bankruptcy rules, bankruptcy rules with regular and hydrological constraints, and the proposed methods were compared and discussed. Among them, the proposed IMCDM-BR was recommended as an effective tool to support practical water allocation. Moreover, factors of equitable and reasonable water allocation were comprehensively considered. The results can thus be used for facilitating negotiation in trans-jurisdiction water allocation among agents within basins.
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