scholarly journals A state-of-the-Art review of heuristic and metaheuristic optimization techniques for the management of water resources

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijendra Kumar ◽  
S. M. Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Engineering Problem ◽  
Optimization Techniques ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Metaheuristic Optimization ◽  
Domestic Use

Abstract Water resource management is a complex engineering problem, due to the stochastic nature of inflow, various demands and environmental flow downstream. With the increase in water consumption for domestic use and irrigation, it becomes more challenging. Many more difficulties, such as non-convex, nonlinear, multi-objective, and discontinuous functions, exist in real-life. From the past two decades, heuristic and metaheuristic optimization techniques have played a significant role in managing and providing better performance solutions. The popularity of heuristic and metaheuristic optimization techniques has increased among researchers due to their numerous benefits and possibilities. Researchers are attempting to develop more accurate and efficient models by incorporating novel methods and hybridizing existing ones. This paper's main contribution is to show the state-of-the-art of heuristic and metaheuristic optimization techniques in water resource management. The research provides a comprehensive overview of the various techniques within the context of a thorough evaluation and discussion. As a result, for water resource management problems, this study introduces the most promising evolutionary and swarm intelligence techniques. Hybridization, modifications, and algorithm variants are reported to be the most successful for improving optimization techniques. This survey can be used to aid hydrologists and scientists in deciding the proper optimization techniques.

scholarly journals Multi-stakeholder platforms: integrating society in water resource management?

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Warner
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Real Life ◽  
International Water ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Multi-Stakeholder Platforms are a currently popular concept in the international water world. It is however not a very well defined phenomenon. The present article unpacks the concept, proposes to see platforms as networks, and identifies two ´schools of thought´: social learning and negotiation. It attempts a preliminary typology of platforms encountered in real life, in which the Comités de Bacia in Brazil, for all their shortcomings, come out as a relatively influential type. In closing, the article then identifies reasons for non-participation, suggesting that it is an inevitable corollary of organised participation.

State of the Art Review of Ant Colony Optimization Applications in Water Resource Management

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 3891-3904 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbas Afshar ◽  
Fariborz Massoumi ◽  
Amin Afshar ◽  
Miquel A. Mariño
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Ant Colony Optimization ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Ant Colony

scholarly journals Integrated Water Resource Management: Principles and Applications

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-121
Author(s):  
Georg Meran ◽  
Markus Siehlow ◽  
Christian von Hirschhausen
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Water Quality Management ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Integrated Water Resource Management ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
Total Welfare

Abstract The concept of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) was established, back in the 1930s, to address “optimal” water management, mainly from a technical perspective, but also taking into account social goals, such as the fulfillment of basic needs and the total welfare of the population. The chapter provides a comprehensive overview of issues related to IWRM. After a discussion of the various economic dimensions of water, we establish a basic model to analyze the value of water under different social welfare objective functions, including the human right to water. The technical-economic model also addresses questions of eco-hydrology, water recycling, groundwater management, and water quality management. The chapter also addresses water allocation along rivers and water transfers between watersheds. The chapter includes exercises and suggestions for further reading.

scholarly journals Socio-Psychological Perspectives on the Potential for Serious Games to Promote Transcendental Values in IWRM Decision-Making

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1097 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianna Marini ◽  
Wietske Medema ◽  
Jan Adamowski ◽  
Samuel Veissière ◽  
Igor Mayer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Value Change

Modern day challenges of water resource management involve difficult decision-making in the face of increasing complexity and uncertainty. However, even if all decision-makers possessed perfect knowledge, water management decisions ultimately involve competing values, which will only get more prominent with increasing scarcity and competition over resources. Therefore, an important normative goal for water management is long-term cooperation between stakeholders. According to the principles of integrated water resource management (IWRM), this necessitates that managerial decisions support social equity and intergenerational equity (social equity that spans generations). The purpose of this discussion is to formulate preliminary recommendations for the design of serious games (SGs), a potential learning tool that may give rise to shared values and engage stakeholders with conflicting interests to cooperate towards a common goal. Specifically, this discussion explores whether SGs could promote values that transcend self-interest (transcendental values), based on the contributions of social psychology. The discussion is organized in the following way. First, an introduction is provided as to why understanding values from psychological perspectives is both important for water management and a potential avenue for learning in SGs. Second, a review of the description of values and mechanisms of value change from the field of social psychology is presented. This review highlights key psychological constraints to learning or applying values. Based on this review, recommendations are made for SGs designers to consider when developing games for water management, in order to promote transcendental values. Overall, the main conclusions from exploring the potential of value change for IWRM through SGs design are as follows: 1-SGs design needs to consider how all values change systematically; 2-SGs design should incorporate the many value conflicts that are faced in real life water management, 3-SGs could potentially promote learning by having players reflect on the reasoning behind value priorities across water management situations, and 4-value change ought to be tested in an iterative SGs design process using the Schwartz’s Value Survey (SVS) (or something akin to it).

Catchment surveillance for water resource management

Waterlines ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-25
Author(s):  
Barry Lloyd ◽  
Teresa Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management
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