Exploring Tradeoffs in Demand-Side and Supply-Side Management of Urban Water Resources Using Agent-Based Modeling and Evolutionary Computation

Kanta, Lufthansa; Berglund, Emily Zechman

doi:10.3390/systems3040287

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“…Assessment tools [80], [97] City logistics [18] Decision support [16], [22], [24], [31], [35], [36], [40], [41], [50], [67], [68], [74], [ 77], [86], [100] Optimization [56], [57], [99] Planning [17], [21], [73], [88] Policy making [19], [28], [39], [46], [53], [64], [65], [72], [78], [90], [91], [92], [102] Prediction [27] System understanding [20], [23], [25], [26], [29], [30], [32], [33], [37], [38], [42]…”

Section: Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…NetLogo [26], [29], [32], [44], [47], [51], [55], [60], [63], [69], [71], [87], [101] Repast [20], [21] MASON [79], [80], [93], [102] AnyLogic [22], [56], [57], [94] MP-MAS [78], [83], [84] Other (MASS, CORMAS, Protégé, STELLA, MATLAB, SWARM, MacStarLogo, MatSim, GAMA, TAPAS) [18], [25], [27], [30], [33], [35], [41], [52], [60], [62], [74], [77], [90], [95] Custom [16], [28], [31], [36], [42], [45], [46], [49], [50], [58],…”

Section: Simulation Platform Referencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Agent-based modeling and simulation in the research of environmental sustainability. A bibliography

Șușnea

Pecheanu

2021

Present Environment and Sustainable Development

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In the context of the alarming news about climate changes, resource depletion, ecological disasters, and demographic trends, the interest of the researchers and the scientific literature on topics related to sustainability grew exponentially in the past two decades. In 2020 only, the number of publications indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) having the keywords “sustainability” or “sustainable development” in the topic was higher than 42,000. Facing this flood of literature, the present work aims to ease the effort of locating relevant studies about the applications of Agent-based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) in the research of environmental sustainability. This goal is accomplished by: (a) providing a comprehensive bibliography of recent relevant articles on this topic, (b) identifying the most popular domains of application of ABMS in this field, and (c) building a list of the available simulation tools. We found that most of the selected studies (52%) are designed for management related acticities (decision support, policy making etc.), the application domain addressed by the largest number of articles (27%) is agriculture and related activities (pastoralism, hunting, fishery, and forestry), and the most popular simulation platform is NetLogo (15%).

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Section: Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Simulation Platform Referencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agent-based modeling and simulation in the research of environmental sustainability. A bibliography

Șușnea

Pecheanu

2021

Present Environment and Sustainable Development

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“…Agent-based modeling has been applied to simulate a range of water resources planning problems by representing water users, stakeholders, and decision-makers as agents to capture decisions and behaviors around water use, water supply, wastewater services, and stormwater runoff [11]. Agent-based models have been applied to represent a population of residential water users that adapt their water consumption based on economics, climate, policies, and social influence [61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71]. These models simulate household decisions to use water and reduce consumption by adopting water-efficient technologies and restricting water use.…”

Section: Agent-based Modeling For Water Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…These models simulate household decisions to use water and reduce consumption by adopting water-efficient technologies and restricting water use. Some frameworks couple agent-based modeling with the water supply system to capture feedback between the availability of water resources and decisions to conserve water [64][65][66][67]70]. Other agent-based models couple a population of agents with the hydraulic simulation of a water distribution system to evaluate how network flows are impacted by changing demands.…”

Section: Agent-based Modeling For Water Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

A Smart Water Grid for Micro-Trading Rainwater: Hydraulic Feasibility Analysis

Ramsey

Pesantez

Fasaee

et al. 2020

Water

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Water availability is increasingly stressed in cities across the world due to population growth, which increases demands, and climate change, which can decrease supply. Novel water markets and water supply paradigms are emerging to address water shortages in the urban environment. This research develops a new peer-to-peer non-potable water market that allows households to capture, use, sell, and buy rainwater within a network of water users. A peer-to-peer non-potable water market, as envisioned in this research, would be enabled by existing and emerging technologies. A dual reticulation system, which circulates non-potable water, serves as the backbone for the water trading network by receiving water from residential rainwater tanks and distributing water to households for irrigation purposes. Prosumer households produce rainwater by using cisterns to collect and store rainwater and household pumps to inject rainwater into the network at sufficiently high pressures. The smart water grid would be enabled through an array of information and communication technologies that provide capabilities for automated and real-time metering of water flow, control of infrastructure, and trading between households. The goal of this manuscript is to explore and test the hydraulic feasibility of a micro-trading system through an agent-based modeling approach. Prosumer households are represented as agents that store rainwater and pump rainwater into the network; consumer households are represented as agents that withdraw water from the network for irrigation demands. An all-pipe hydraulic model is constructed and loosely coupled with the agent-based model to simulate network hydraulics. A set of scenarios are analyzed to explore how micro-trading performs based on the level of irrigation demands that could realistically be met through decentralized trading; pressure and energy requirements at prosumer households; pressure and water quality in the pipe network.

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“…For supply-side management, policies include public investment in water supply, including manufacturing of water from the ocean (desalination) and treating wastewater to potable conditions for human consumption, or treating wastewater for use in agriculture or for aquifer recharge [16,33]. Many studies have been conducted to assess the efficiency of such policy interventions in specific regions or countries [20,30].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Are intra- and inter-basin water transfers a sustainable policy intervention for addressing water scarcity?

Purvis

Dinar

2020

Water Security

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Water scarcity affects many countries around the world, and increases in severity over time as populations grow and climate change further intensifies. Governments and water regulators address increased water scarcity in a regional setting by introducing policy interventions, including non-structural, such as pricing mechanisms and quotas to affect demand, and supply management means, such as water storage and extraction. One of the most extreme policy interventions is to build infrastructure to move water from locations where it is abundant to locations facing scarcity. Such interventions are known as intra-and inter-basin transfers (IBTs) of water and have been quite frequently practiced in many river basins around the world in recent years. In moving water from one place to another benefits and costs are realized, some of which are private and some are public in nature. The objective of this paper is to discern whether or not the documented IBTs have been sustainable in addressing scarcity. Since very few quantitative cost benefit analyses are available for IBTs, we apply a variation of the QUAlitative Structural Approach for Ranking (QUASAR) method to 121 studies of documented IBTs within 40 territories and basins around the world, using five attributes of impact that were found to be associated with the transfers. Our findings suggest that the majority of the IBTs have been associated with overall negligible or negative impacts on the water-exporting regions, the water-transmitting regions, or the waterimporting regions within the basins studied. Our findings also suggest that IBTs that were meant to relieve higher levels of water scarcity in the importing regions might be more prone to overall negative impacts.

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Exploring Tradeoffs in Demand-Side and Supply-Side Management of Urban Water Resources Using Agent-Based Modeling and Evolutionary Computation

Cited by 11 publications

References 34 publications

Agent-based modeling and simulation in the research of environmental sustainability. A bibliography

Agent-based modeling and simulation in the research of environmental sustainability. A bibliography

A Smart Water Grid for Micro-Trading Rainwater: Hydraulic Feasibility Analysis

Are intra- and inter-basin water transfers a sustainable policy intervention for addressing water scarcity?

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