Multiobjective Water Resource Planning

✍ Scribed by David C. Major(auth.)

• Publisher: by the American Geophysical Union.
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 86
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

About The Product

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Water Resources Monograph Series.

His volume, the fourth in the American Geophysical Union's Water Resources Monograph Series, is an exposition of multiobjective water resource planning. The multiobjective approach is, I believe, an approach that will enable water resource planners to improve substantially the social value of the projects that they build or, in the case of management plans, implement. As a not unwelcome side effect the multiobjective approach should provide a more satisfying professional life to planners and engineers. It requires more effort in the early stages of planning than simpler criteria such as the traditional benefit-cost analysis that it replaces, but at the same time, multiobjective analysis frees the planner from the burden of designing projects that are not fully representative of the social, economic, environmental, and other objectives that govern public investment in water resources.

Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–6):
Chapter 2 Theory of Multiobjective Planning (pages 7–20):
Chapter 3 Investment Criteria for Multiobjective Analysis (pages 21–50):
Chapter 4 Multiobjective Planning in Practice (pages 51–77):

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 1
Copyright......Page 2
Foreword......Page 3
Preface......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
I Introduction......Page 7
2 Theory of Multiobjective Planning......Page 13
Choice of Objectives for Analysis......Page 15
Net Benefits......Page 16
Social Preferences......Page 18
Weights, Constraints, and Other Aspects of Multiobjective Theory......Page 19
Design and Display Objectives......Page 22
Iterative Nature of Multiobjective Planning: Four Steps of Planning......Page 25
Multiobjective Planning in Other Countries......Page 26
Multiobjective Benefit-Cost Accounting......Page 27
National Income......Page 28
Some Words of Caution......Page 33
National Income Benefits and Costs in the Context of Less
Developed Countries......Page 34
Regional Income and Other Regional Objectives......Page 35
Environmental Quality, Social, and Other Objectives......Page 38
Some Older Terminology......Page 40
Alternative Costs as a Measure of Multiobjective Benefits......Page 41
Multiobjective Interest Rates......Page 42
Using Multiobjective Interest Rates......Page 44
Scheduling of Multiobjective Water Resource Projects and Programs......Page 48
Budget Constraints......Page 49
Risk and Uncertainty in Multiobjective Planning......Page 53
Pricing and Cost-Sharing Policies for Multiobjectives......Page 55
Selection of Objectives in Practice......Page 57
Objectives in Less Developed Countries......Page 58
Developing System Designs Reflecting Objectives......Page 59
Communication Policy for Multiobjective Planning......Page 62
Multiobjective Planning in Practice: Four Cases......Page 63
NAR Water Resources Study......Page 64
Rio Colorado, Argentina, Study......Page 68
Big Walnut Study......Page 75
Managua Irrigation Scheme......Page 81
Multiobjective Water Resource Planning in the United States:
Needed Extensions......Page 82
References......Page 84