Towards Agricultural Water Management Decisions in the Context of WELF Nexus

Proceedings

Spyridakos, Athanasios¹  Vryzidis, Isaak²  Psomas, Alexandros³  Mimikou, Maria⁴ 

[1] Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.;Department of Business Management, School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, University of West Attica, 250, Petrou Ralli & Thivwn Streets, Egaleo, 12244 Athens, Greece;Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), 5, Iroon Polytechneiou Street, Zografou, 15780 Athens, Greece;Presented at the 3rd EWaS International Conference on “Insights on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus”, Lefkada Island, Greece, 27–30 June 2018.

关键词: MCDA;    MAUT;    WAP;    nexus;    agriculture;    water management;   

DOI  :  10.3390/proceedings2110613

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

A Multi-criteria Decision Aid (MCDA) framework based on the combination of Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAVT/MAUT) with the Weights Assessment through Prioritization method (WAP) is proposed for decision problems related to agricultural water management in the context of water-energy-land-food (WELF) nexus. The implementation of the framework supports a Decision Maker (DM) to quantify his/her preferences in a structured and rational way, in order to select the best alternative for agricultural water management. Through the use of the Multicriteria Interactive Intelligence Decision Aiding System (MIIDAS), marginal utilities functions for all the criteria are constructed. The criteria are grouped in points of view, which may refer to individual nexus elements and costs for investments or agricultural inputs. The WAP software assists the DM to assess the relative importance of the criteria and estimate their weights.

【 授权许可】

CC BY