An Integrated Assessment Framework for Water Resources Management: A Dss Tool and a Pilot Study Application

26 Pages Posted: 28 Oct 2004

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Anita Fassio

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

Carlo Giupponi

Ca Foscari University of Venice - Dipartimento di Economia; Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

Jaroslaw Mysiak

UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle

Date Written: October 2004

Abstract

Decision making for the management of water resources is a complex and difficult task. This is due to the complex socio-economic system that involves a large number of interest groups pursuing multiple and conflicting objectives, within an often intricate legislative framework. Several Decision Support Systems have been developed but very few have indeed proved to be effective and truly operational. MULINO (Multisectoral, Integrated and Operational Decision Support System for Sustainable Use of Water Resources at the Catchment Scale) is a project funded under the Fifth Framework Programme of the European Research and the key action line dedicated to operational management schemes and decision support system for sustainable use of water resources. The MULINO DSS (mDSS) integrates hydrological models with multi-criteria decision methods and adopts the DPSIR (Driving Force - Pressure - State -Impact - Response) framework developed by the European Environment Agency. The DPSIR was converted from a static reporting scheme into a dynamic framework for integrated assessment modelling (IAM) and multi-criteria evaluation procedures. This paper presents the methodological framework and the intermediate results of the mDSS tool through its application in a pilot study area located in the Watershed of the Lagoon of Venice.

Keywords: Integrated water resources management, Spatial decision-making, Decision support system, Catchment, Environmental modelling

JEL Classification: C63, Q25

Suggested Citation

Fassio, Anita and Giupponi, Carlo and Mysiak, Jaroslaw, An Integrated Assessment Framework for Water Resources Management: A Dss Tool and a Pilot Study Application (October 2004). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=600563 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.600563

Anita Fassio (Contact Author)

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) ( email )

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Venezia, 30122
Italy
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Carlo Giupponi

Ca Foscari University of Venice - Dipartimento di Economia ( email )

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Venice, 30121
Italy

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) ( email )

Corso Magenta 63
20123 Milan
Italy

Jaroslaw Mysiak

UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle ( email )

Permoserstrasse 15
D-04318 Leipzig
Germany

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