An integrated study of spatial multicriteria analysis and mathematical modelling for managed aquifer recharge site suitability mapping and site ranking at Northern Gaza coastal aquifer

Rahman, Mohammad Azizur; Rusteberg, Bernd; Uddin, Mohammad Salah; Lutz, A. Lupig.; Saada, Muath Abu; Sauter, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.03.023

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“…Field analyses provide valuable ground-truth for models evaluating locations for future MAR projects (Saraf and Choudhury, 1998;Jha et al, 2007;Yeh et al, 2009;Chenini et al, 2010;Rahman et al, 2012Rahman et al, , 2013Russo et al, 2014) and elucidate important site conditions that may not be represented in regional studies. We analyze the dynamics of, and relations between, precipitation, runoff generation, infiltration, and sediment transport at this site and discuss broader water resource management implications.…”

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Coupling distributed stormwater collection and managed aquifer recharge: Field application and implications

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2017

Journal of Environmental Management

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Coupling distributed stormwater collection and managed aquifer recharge: Field application and implications

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2017

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“…These factors (criterion values and criterion weights) are the main sources of uncertainty in the GIS-MCDA [14]. Performing a sensitivity analysis makes a more robust decision rule for the selection of site suitability [41].…”

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“…Methods and instructions for the sensitivity analysis are available in [12][13][14]19,35,41]. These include "one-at-a-time" methods and "variance-methods" [14].…”

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“…These include "one-at-a-time" methods and "variance-methods" [14]. Sensitivity analysis has been carried out to demonstrate the effect of changes of the criterion weights on the spatial distribution the suitability mapping in [12,35,41]. A sensitivity analysis completed by changing the criterion values is given in [19].…”

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“…Several different approaches to classify the suitability of the slope are available in the literature [12,[16][17][18][19][21][22][23][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]41]. The linear function for the standardization of the slope is used in [12,41], all the others use the step-wise function (slope classes).…”

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An integrated study of spatial multicriteria analysis and mathematical modelling for managed aquifer recharge site suitability mapping and site ranking at Northern Gaza coastal aquifer

Cited by 74 publications

References 36 publications

Coupling distributed stormwater collection and managed aquifer recharge: Field application and implications

Coupling distributed stormwater collection and managed aquifer recharge: Field application and implications

Application of a GIS Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for the Identification of Intrinsic Suitable Sites in Costa Rica for the Application of Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) through Spreading Methods

Multicriteria decision making for sustainable development: A systematic review

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