Evaluating challenges and priorities of a trans-regional river basin in Greece by using a hybrid SWOT scheme and a stakeholders' competency overview

Podimata, Marianthi V.; Yannopoulos, Panayotis C.

doi:10.1080/15715124.2013.768624

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“…The Alfeios River Basin (Figure 1) has been extensively described in the past [14,23,24]. According to [14], the Alfeios River is a water resources system of great natural, ecological, social and economic importance for western Greece, since it is the longest watercourse (with a length of 112 km) and has the highest flow rate (absolute maximum and minimum values recorded 2380 m 3 /s and 13 m 3 /s) in the Peloponnese region in Greece.…”

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Optimizing Water Allocation under Uncertain System Conditions in Alfeios River Basin (Greece), Part A: Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Model with Deterministic Boundary Intervals

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Yannopoulos

2015

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Abstract:The enactment of the Water Framework Directive, constituting the basis of the European water policy, introduced various challenges and complexities for water resources management. River basins are exposed to a plethora of environmental stresses, resulting in degradation of their quantitative and qualitative status. This led to the reduction of clean available water, increasing competition among water users and imposing the need for optimal water allocation for each river unit. In most countries (including those in the Mediterranean), water resources management is characterized by lack of effective operational strategies combined with the absence of permanent measuring systems and low financial means, hampering the implementation of efficient river monitoring. Therefore, water resources management is indicated by high uncertainty and by imprecise and limited data, which may be easily approximated through estimates of intervals. In the present work, optimal water allocation under uncertain system conditions is undertaken for the Alfeios River Basin (Greece) based on an inexact two-stage stochastic programming methodology developed by Huang and Loucks (2000). It combines ordinary two-stage stochastic programming with uncertainties expressed as deterministic boundary intervals. Stable intervals for optimized water allocation targets and probabilistic water allocation and shortages are estimated under a baseline scenario and four water and agricultural policy future scenarios. OPEN ACCESSWater 2015, 7 5306

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Section: Description Of Alfeios River Basinmentioning

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Optimizing Water Allocation under Uncertain System Conditions in Alfeios River Basin (Greece), Part A: Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Model with Deterministic Boundary Intervals

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Yannopoulos

2015

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“…Starting from the seminal works by [28,29], a significant strand of literature developed and the number of its applications to real-world decision problems increased significantly [32][33][34]. The applications of the A'WOT method are varied and cover as major fields natural resource management [32,[35][36][37], sustainable tourism and tourism management [25,34,38,39], strategic assessment and group decision making (see among others, [40][41][42][43]). Although in the field of cultural heritage assessment, there are a flourishing set of recent contributions in literature on the sole application of AHP [44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51] and SWOT analysis [52][53][54][55][56], respectively.…”

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An Application of the A’WOT Analysis for the Management of Cultural Heritage Assets: The Case of the Historical Farmhouses in the Aglié Castle (Turin)

2020

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In recent years, governments, public institutions, and local communities have devoted growing attention to the identification of promising strategies for the preservation and valorization of cultural heritage assets. Decisions on the management of cultural heritage assets based on multiple, often conflicting, criteria and on the stakes of various, and potentially non-consensual actors and stakeholders. In this context, in which the trade-offs between the preservation of assets historical symbolic values and the adaptation to alternative and economically profitable uses play a key role in investment decisions, multi-criteria analyses provide robust theoretical and methodological frameworks to support decision-makers in the design and implementation of adaptive reuse strategies for cultural heritage and public real estate assets. In this paper, we provide a multi-criteria decision aiding approach for ranking valorization strategies of cultural heritage assets aimed at promoting their restoration and conservation, as well as at creating cultural and economic benefits. In detail, we present a novel application of the A’WOT analysis to support the design and implementation of alternative management strategies of abandoned cultural heritage assets. The paper focuses on the potential reuse and management of four historical farmhouses (Cascina Mandria, Cascina Lavanderia, Cascina Gozzani, and Cascina Ortovalle) located in the Agliè Castle estate, one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, currently listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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“…It was developed within the framework of the European ecotoxicological risk assessment system (Feijtel et al 1998) and has been successfully applied to simulate a wide range of pollutants in several river basins all over the world (Hüffmeyer et al 2009;Alder et al 2010;Aldekoa et al 2013;Archundia et al 2018;Duarte et al 2021). In this context, modelling of transboundary catchments imposes particular challenges to overcome such as country-specific administrative structures and water management systems (e.g., Watson 2004;Podimata and Yannopoulos 2013) or availability of required input data. For modelling of pharmaceuticals, other aspects like differences in consumption patterns and drug regulations have to be taken into account, where a main obstacle to modelling studies of micropollutants in transboundary catchments is the restricted access to detailed national and regional consumption data (Tiedeken et al 2017).…”

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Spatial Modelling of Micro-pollutants in a Strongly Regulated Cross-border Lowland Catchment

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Anthropogenically influenced transboundary catchment areas require an appropriately adapted exposure modelling. In such catchments, water management decisions strongly influence and override natural river hydrology. We adapted the existing exposure assessment model GREAT-ER to better represent artificially overprinted hydrological conditions in the simulations. Changes in flow directions and emission routes depending on boundary conditions can be taken into account by the adopted approach. The approach was applied in a case study for the drug metformin in the cross-border catchment of Vecht (Germany/Netherlands). In the Dutch part, pumps to maintain necessary water levels and minimum flow rates during dry periods lead to a reversal of the (natural) flow directions and as a consequence to additional pollutant input from the Lower Rhine/Ijssel along with a spatial redistribution of emissions in the catchment area. The model results for the pharmaceutical product metformin show plausible concentration patterns that are consistent with both monitoring results and literature findings at mean discharges and the effects of the changed hydrology in times of low natural discharges, namely an increase in polluted river sections under dry conditions due to the pumping activities. The adapted methodology allows for realistic application of the GREAT-ER model in anthropogenically modified catchments. The approach can be used in similar catchments worldwide for more realistic aquatic exposure assessment.

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Evaluating challenges and priorities of a trans-regional river basin in Greece by using a hybrid SWOT scheme and a stakeholders' competency overview

Cited by 11 publications

References 34 publications

Optimizing Water Allocation under Uncertain System Conditions in Alfeios River Basin (Greece), Part A: Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Model with Deterministic Boundary Intervals

Optimizing Water Allocation under Uncertain System Conditions in Alfeios River Basin (Greece), Part A: Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Model with Deterministic Boundary Intervals

An Application of the A’WOT Analysis for the Management of Cultural Heritage Assets: The Case of the Historical Farmhouses in the Aglié Castle (Turin)

Spatial Modelling of Micro-pollutants in a Strongly Regulated Cross-border Lowland Catchment

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