Modelling decision knowledge for the evaluation of water management investment projects

Brelih, Marjan; Rajkovič, Uroš; Ružič, Tomaž; Rodič, Blaž; Kozelj, Daniel

doi:10.1007/s10100-018-0600-5

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“…Risks of investment in water management projects were addressed using a hybrid multi-criteria decision-making method that integrates quantitative and qualitative criteria value domains in the same decision-making model. The method is based on a decision expert and multi-attribute utility theory methods, which were modified to facilitate conversion between criteria domains [28].…”

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Improving the Project Risk Competence using M-Learning: A Case of Bachelors in Technical Fields

Kozlov

Tamer

Bondarovskaya

et al. 2020

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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<p class="0abstract">Mobile technology is a popular tool used to improve education efficiency. However, its impact on learners in risk assessment training is largely unknown. Projects are fraught with risks so individuals responsible for a project need to possess strong skills to handle the risky circumstances successfully. Unfortunately, candidates for a bachelor’s degree in technical fields in Russia have an insufficient risk competence. This study offers a five-unit program to solve this problem. The study involved 128 students recruited from the Noyabrsk Institute of Oil and Gas (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia). All participants were divided in three groups: two experimental and one control. During a semester, participants in the experimental group followed the proposed program in a mobile setting, while the control group was offered the standard curriculum. The results showed an improvement in the student outcomes: the test scores of the experimental groups were higher by 24.78% and 32.75% than that of the control group. Furthermore, mobile learners were found to perform better than classroom learners: their test score was higher by 3.5% to 8%.</p>

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving the Project Risk Competence using M-Learning: A Case of Bachelors in Technical Fields

Kozlov

Tamer

Bondarovskaya

et al. 2020

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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“…The peri-urban areas are the transitional zones and endure in a crossroad between the development furore and a decaying or destroyed ecosystem. These transitional zones located in city outskirts that are generally situated in low-lying back swamps behind the relatively elevated natural levees on which cities developed (Ascott et al , 2019; Brelih et al , 2018). Urbanization has brought in drastic changes in both the topography and adaptability of these peri-urban areas.…”

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“…Urbanization has brought in drastic changes in both the topography and adaptability of these peri-urban areas. Cities fail to recognize the importance of peri-urban areas and their ecosystems as store house of resources, act to safeguard from floods and droughts are supposed to be kept as city buffer zones for long-term sustainability of the city and to give a range of ecosystem services to the urban communities (Ascott et al , 2019; Brelih et al , 2018). But unfortunately, these areas are becoming occupied by people and cause breakdown of physical/environmental integrity by bringing abrupt change in the pattern of land use.…”

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Waterlogging mitigation and safe water supply: lessons learnt from low-lying areas of Basirhat municipality, India

Dey¹,

Islam

Paul

et al. 2022

IJDRBE

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a replicable model that ensures Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage as well as water treatment facilities at the community level by providing total service coverage at community scale. An intervention was implemented in one of the low-lying areas of Basirhat Municipality (West Bengal, India) that included a number of action programs in order to address household- and community-level water-induced challenges. Design/methodology/approach A research study was undertaken to identify the root causes of the problems that are generally spawned from geomorphological, hydro-fluvial, climatic factors and processes and the situation becomes complicated when many other cumulative problem-contexts layovers the existing ones. A number of social and technological innovations were tested in the field and this paper critically examined the intervention processes and outcomes. It was implemented through participatory process by involving related stakeholders working at that scale so that necessary public acceptance is received for scaling up, at least, in the similar physical, social, economic and institutional contexts. Findings The problem conceptualization process, spatial assessment for contextualizing the problem, design of interventions for different scales, development of project deployment strategies from field-based learnings contributed in developing a total solution based on fusing of household-level technical solutions, social innovations and actions for community engagements towards sustainability. Mobilized community members in addressing local inundation and waterlogging crisis. Satellite image-based maps shown to make them understand the upper-lower connection of drainage. People also developed their own action plans and engaged themselves in resuscitation of an old canal, removed the garbage that resulted in improved drainage conditions in the area. Research limitations/implications Pandemic due to COVID 19 and its related prolonged lock down, West Bengal State Assembly Election, closure of municipal governance system due to the forthcoming municipal election, closure of educational institutions, closure of Anganwadi Centre in the field area were the limitations. Due to the lock down, it was difficult for the team to maintain the time frame as well as the budget. As per the Election’s Code of Conduct gets released no public meeting was allowed without permission, people in the vicinity became suspicious, hence movement of the team members got restricted. Practical implications Due to the COVID protocols, the team could not organise mass training programs. It was difficult for the team members to commute in public/private transport, hence filed work got impacted. As the team could not access data from the health department, they developed a strategy of generation data on body mass index, mid-upper arm circumferences and waist-to-hip ratios to understand the status of health and nutrition of the community. It was difficult to access the Public Health Engineering Department’s laboratory situated in the municipality for water sample test. Cost escalated due to extension of the project time. Social implications During the second phase (wave) when people lost access to health facilities they requested the team to stop field visit. Women’s empowerment through acquiring knowledge and skill on treatment and safe storage of drinking water at home. Men appreciated and recognized this, which improved the status of women in the society. Children after expressing their willingness to learn the new technology of water purification were given handholding training by their mothers and knowledge transfer has taken place in the next generation. Mobilized community members in addressing local inundation and waterlogging crisis. Satellite image-based maps to understand the upper-lower connection of drainage helped them develop their own action plans and engaged themselves in resuscitation of an old canal, removed the garbage that resulted in improved drainage conditions in the area. Originality/value Household-level solutions include supply of low cost, easy operable, sustainable water purifiers, community-level solution focused on securing water-related challenges at social/public gathering places and wider catchment area level solutions include the engagement of local communities to drain out stagnant waters by clearing drains, creating/digging small canals through collective actions. Geo-spatial techniques (topographical mapping, spatial survey, water quality tests) along with social methods such as participatory appraisals for gathering information on human health, public awareness campaigns and partnership development with local government agencies were the major activities performed as part of the implementation of interventions. It is imperative to mention that water-related challenges in the low-lying settlement areas of Basirhat Municipality have effectively been addressed by relying on necessary theoretical underpinnings (Disaster risk reduction/humanitarian principles) transmitted through application of scientific techniques and mediated through local people and their agencies.

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“…In the literature, it is seen that many studies on performance evaluation have been carried out. In recent years, personnel evaluation (Parades et al 2019;He 2019), project performance evaluation (Brelih et al 2019;Chatterjee 2018), evaluation of logistics service providers (Zarbakhshnia et al 2018;Narkhede et al 2017) supplier performance evaluation (Prashanth et al 2020;Dos Santos and Godoy 2019;Liu et al 2019) are at the forefront. Data envelopment In this study, performance assessment of a technology company that performs in the retail sector is conducted.…”

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Performance Assessment of a Technology Company Using Decision Making Approach

Göker¹,

Dursun²

2022

Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management

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Performance management aligns individual aims with organizational aims. It is to obtain better organizational outcomes managing and understanding performance within an agreed framework of planned objectives, standards and requirements. The main elements of performance management are agreement, measurement, feedback, positive reinforcement and dialogue. The data envelopment analysis (DEA) model, also named as the CCR model, proposed by Charnes et al. (1978), computes the relative efficiency of a decision-making unit (DMU) by maximizing the ratio of its total weighted outputs to its total weighted inputs subject to the condition that the output to input ratio of every DMU be less than or equal to unity. However, conventional DEA model assigns unrealistic weights to the inputs and outputs to produce high efficiency score for the evaluated DMU and therefore the number of efficient DMUs can be quite high. To overcome that issue, common-weight DEA-based models are proposed by the scholars. In this study, performance evaluation of a technology company that performs in the retail sector is conducted and the results are analyzed.

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Modelling decision knowledge for the evaluation of water management investment projects

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

Improving the Project Risk Competence using M-Learning: A Case of Bachelors in Technical Fields

Improving the Project Risk Competence using M-Learning: A Case of Bachelors in Technical Fields

Waterlogging mitigation and safe water supply: lessons learnt from low-lying areas of Basirhat municipality, India

Performance Assessment of a Technology Company Using Decision Making Approach

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