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Sustaining water supply through a phased community management approach: lessons from Ghana’s “oats” water supply scheme

In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 13 (2011) 6, pp. 1021-1042

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Response Matrix Minimization Used in Groundwater Management with Mathematical Programming: A Case Study in a Transboundary Aquifer in Northern Greece

Psilovikos, Aris - In: Water Resources Management 20 (2006) 2, pp. 277-290

concerned on water management and specifically on the optimal distribution of limited water resources using groundwater … management models. These combined models, via simulation and optimization algorithms, result in one optimal solution through … operations research and mathematical programming methods. The groundwater management models are based on the method of space …

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Multi-Objective tool to optimize the Water Resources Management using Genetic Algorithm and the Pareto Optimality Concept

Nouiri, Issam - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 10, pp. 2885-2901

Management. The objectives of satisfying demand and reducing costs were taken into consideration while at the same time … optimality concept were used to resolve the formulated problem. The tool developed was used to help optimize the daily management … be used for a large variety of water management problems. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 …

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Groundwater Risk Management Assessment in Arid Regions

Şen, Zekai - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 15, pp. 4509-4524

Wadis are arid region drainage basins, mostly in the Quaternary depositions of different facies and grain size distributions depending on the paleogeologic environmental processes. Random and heterogeneous setup of the subsurface geological layer composition gives rather independent, haphazard...

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The DPSIR Approach for an Integrated River Management Framework. A Preliminary Application on a Mediterranean Site (Kalamas River -NW Greece)

Kagalou, Ifigenia; Leonardos, Ioannis; Anastasiadou, Chryssa - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 6, pp. 1677-1692

management of water resources. In the present paper the Driving-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework was developed as …

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Simple Daily Dynamic Adaptive Operation Rules for WaterResources Optimization

Şen, Zekai; Kadioğlu, Mikdat - In: Water Resources Management 14 (2000) 5, pp. 349-368

In large metropolitan areas of the world the operation andmanagement programs for water supply reservoirs play adominant role in economic, social and cultural growth anddevelopment. An unprecedented population increase inaddition to intensive migration from rural areas add extrapressure on the...

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Managing the reputation of an award to motivate performance

Gavrila, C.; Caulkins, J.P.; Feichtinger, G.; Tragler, G.; … - In: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 61 (2005) 1, pp. 1-22

the award is given so often that its prestige is diluted. The model here focuses on management of the reputation of an …

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First-Aid Transportation by Hovercraft in a Disaster

Kubo, Syozo; Akimoto, Hiromichi; Moriwake, Takumi - In: Natural Hazards 29 (2003) 3, pp. 553-566

Transportation is one of the most important and urgent tasks in a disaster, e.g., earthquake or flood. Trains, trucks and cars are very restricted by destruction of rail and road, bridges and buildings fall down, flood waters and thick mud, landslides, cracks, level differences, severe traffic...

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A hurricane evacuation management decision support system (EMDSS)

Lindell, Michael; Prater, Carla - In: Natural Hazards 40 (2007) 3, pp. 627-634

in an evacuation management decision support system (EMDSS). The hurricane EMDSS described here displays information …

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A Numerical Study on Coastal Defence at Chennai and Related Management Strategies

Mani, J. - In: Natural Hazards 31 (2004) 2, pp. 523-536

and details of themethodologies to be adopted for effective management of the coast. Thesolution presented in this paper …

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