Multiobjective programing in watershed management: A study of the Charleston Watershed

Goicoechea, Ambrose; Duckstein, Lucien; Fogel, Martin M.

doi:10.1029/wr012i006p01085

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“…, 1974] and the trade-off development method (TRADE)[Goicoechea et al, 1976]. Presentations and discussions of these methods can be found in textbooks[Goicoechea et al, 1982; Szidarovsky et al, 1986] and in review papers[Hipel, 1992; Szidarovsky and Szenteleki, 1987; Yapo et al, 1992].…”

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Toward improved calibration of hydrologic models: Multiple and noncommensurable measures of information

Gupta¹,

Sorooshian²,

Yapo³

1998

Water Resources Research

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Abstract. Several contributions to the hydrological literature have brought into question the continued usefulness of the classical paradigm for hydrologic model calibration. With the growing popularity of sophisticated "physically based" watershed models (e.g., landsurface hydrology and hydrochemical models) the complexity of the calibration problem has been multiplied many fold. We disagree with the seemingly widespread conviction that the model calibration problem will simply disappear with the availability of more and better field measurements. This paper suggests that the emergence of a new and more powerful model calibration paradigm must include recognition of the inherent multiobjective nature of the problem and must explicitly recognize the role of model error. The results of our preliminary studies are presented. Through an illustrative case study we show that the multiobjective approach is not only practical and relatively simple to implement but can also provide useful information about the limitations of a model.

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Toward improved calibration of hydrologic models: Multiple and noncommensurable measures of information

Gupta¹,

Sorooshian²,

Yapo³

1998

Water Resources Research

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“…Many studies have been made of multi-objective planning under various conditions; however, very few of them focus on the evaluation of the optimal balance between economic development and environmental quality within a reservoir watershed. In literature, Goiocoechea et al (1976) illustrated the use of multi-objective programming in a watershed land management project. Yeh and Becker (1982) applied the epsilon constraint method to multi-objective analysis of the Central Valley Project in California, considering tradeoffs between hydropower generation and water supply objectives.…”

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Operating Rules of an Irrigation Purposes Reservoir Using Multi-Objective Optimization

Consoli

Matarazzo

Pappalardo

2007

Water Resour Manage

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A multi-objective optimization technique for the operation of an irrigation reservoir is presented in this paper. The study deals with two different objective functions (OF): the minimization of reservoir release deficit from the irrigation demand (OF1) and the maximization of net benefit by the demand sector (OF2). In the first step, monthly optimization of each individual objective was performed with a deterministic non-linear programming (NLP) algorithm, that gave the lower and upper bounds for the multiobjective analysis. In the second step, multi-objective optimization was performed through the Constraint method that operates by optimising the objective function OF1, while the other (OF2) was constrained to satisfy release strategies generated by the optimization. Non-dominated set of release strategies is generated by parametrically varying the bounds of the constraints obtained from the individual optimal solutions. In the third step, the interactive analytical Step method was applied to find the best compromise solution, between the two OFs, by minimizing the distance of each non-dominated solution to an ideal solution that represents the utopian optimum for both OF1 and OF2. Furthermore, the interactive approach allows to improve the performance of the reservoir in terms of compromise irrigation releases, by changing the OF values until the satisfaction of predetermined criteria fixed by the planners and decision makers. The proposed water allocation model was applied to the Pozzillo reservoir operation, that supplies the Catania Plain irrigation area (Eastern Sicily).

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“…Watershed has been a highly preferable study unit combining terrestrial with aquatic systems since watershed programming was proposed in the 1970s for the first time [1, 2]. With the rapid economic development within watersheds, human activity has caused severely adverse consequences on natural surface water bodies, such as water resources shortage [3], water quality deterioration [4], and aquatic ecological degradation [5].…”

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A Risk Explicit Interval Linear Programming Model for Uncertainty‐Based Environmental Economic Optimization in the Lake Fuxian Watershed, China

Zhang

Huang

Zou

et al. 2013

The Scientific World Journal

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The conflict of water environment protection and economic development has brought severe water pollution and restricted the sustainable development in the watershed. A risk explicit interval linear programming (REILP) method was used to solve integrated watershed environmental-economic optimization problem. Interval linear programming (ILP) and REILP models for uncertainty-based environmental economic optimization at the watershed scale were developed for the management of Lake Fuxian watershed, China. Scenario analysis was introduced into model solution process to ensure the practicality and operability of optimization schemes. Decision makers' preferences for risk levels can be expressed through inputting different discrete aspiration level values into the REILP model in three periods under two scenarios. Through balancing the optimal system returns and corresponding system risks, decision makers can develop an efficient industrial restructuring scheme based directly on the window of “low risk and high return efficiency” in the trade-off curve. The representative schemes at the turning points of two scenarios were interpreted and compared to identify a preferable planning alternative, which has the relatively low risks and nearly maximum benefits. This study provides new insights and proposes a tool, which was REILP, for decision makers to develop an effectively environmental economic optimization scheme in integrated watershed management.

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Multiobjective programing in watershed management: A study of the Charleston Watershed

Cited by 35 publications

References 16 publications

Toward improved calibration of hydrologic models: Multiple and noncommensurable measures of information

Toward improved calibration of hydrologic models: Multiple and noncommensurable measures of information

Operating Rules of an Irrigation Purposes Reservoir Using Multi-Objective Optimization

A Risk Explicit Interval Linear Programming Model for Uncertainty‐Based Environmental Economic Optimization in the Lake Fuxian Watershed, China

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