Affiliation:
1. Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Kimmeria Campus, 67100 Xanthi, Greece
Abstract
Bottom-up management in a catchment scale is deemed the optimal way to avoid conflicts among water users through the participation of stakeholders, strategy co-shaping, and solutions co-creation. Water management cannot be one-dimensional; it demands cross sectoral cooperation. Usually, the difficulty lies in proper stakeholder training and inclusion of their opinions, which should be used in a quantifiable manner in water management. The Laspias River watershed occupies an area of 221.8 km2 that includes the River Basin District of Thrace; it is characterized by intense agricultural and industrial activity. To comply with the augmented water needs and pollution loads this research aims to utilize a hybrid intuitionistic fuzzy multi-criteria-based methodology to address respectfully stakeholders’ opinion, this research aims to utilize a hybrid intuitionistic fuzzy multi-criteria-based methodology. It is often difficult to manage planning water management measures as the problems include multiple (conflicting) criteria that are based on stakeholder’s opinions, which are usually imprecise and in a rather qualitative form. This study provides the mathematical tools to reach comprehensive decisions with the public involvement offering a practical solution in an existing problem, that is the proper inclusion of stakeholders’ opinion. The weights are produced based on a stakeholder’s opinion. The alternatives’ ranking is achieved based on the fuzzified intuitionistic version of the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), and a hierarchy of mitigation problems is achieved via this novel approach.
Funder
Eye4Water project
Greece and the European Union—European Regional-Development Fund
Subject
Water Science and Technology,Aquatic Science,Geography, Planning and Development,Biochemistry
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