Water–Food Nexus System Management under Uncertainty through an Inexact Fuzzy Chance Constraint Programming Method-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Water–Food Nexus System Management under Uncertainty through an Inexact Fuzzy Chance Constraint Programming Method

Published:2024-01-09 Issue:2 Volume:16 Page:227
ISSN:2073-4441
Container-title:Water
language:en
Short-container-title:Water

Author:

Liu Fengping¹²,Li Wei¹,Wang Xu¹,Zhang Yankun²,Ding Zhenyu²,Xu Ye¹

Affiliation:

1. MOE Key Laboratory of Regional Energy and Environmental Systems Optimization, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China

2. Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning, Beijing 100041, China

Abstract

This study discusses the planning of a regional-scale water–food nexus (WFN) system using an inexact fuzzy chance constraint programming (IFCCP) method. The IFCCP approach can handle uncertainties expressed as interval and fuzzy parameters, as well as the preferences of decision makers. An inexact fuzzy chance constraint programming-based water–food nexus (IFCCP-WFN) model has been developed for the City of Jinan with the consideration of various restrictions related to water and land availability, as well as food and vegetable demands. Solutions for the planting areas for different crops in different periods have been generated under the different preferences of decision makers. The water resource availability would be the priority factor affecting the WFN system under demanding conditions, in which wheat cultivation would be dominated by this factor under fuzzy confidence levels of 0.2 and 0.5, and the planting area of corn would be determined by this factor under high fuzzy confidence levels (e.g., 0.8). In addition, the reliability of irrigation would decrease with increasing fuzzy confidence levels under demanding conditions, limiting the planting areas for crops and leading to a decreasing trend of the system benefit. Adequate water resources would be available for irrigation under optimistic conditions, implying no significant contributions to the planting schemes. Nevertheless, increasing food loss rates would result in more planting areas to satisfy food requirements and thus a greater system benefit under advantageous conditions. Compared with the developed IFCCP-WFN model, the interval-linear-programming-based water–food nexus (ILP-WFN) model can merely reflect the lower and upper bounds of uncertain parameters and neglects the inherent distributional information within the fuzzy parameters. Thus, the ILP-WFN model is unable to reveal the inherent impacts of the fuzzy parameters on the resulting planting strategies.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

MDPI AG

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/2/227/pdf

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