Author(s): Thomas Bakas; Dionissis Latinopoulos; Christopher Papadopoulos; Ifigenia Kagalou; Mike Spiliotis
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Abstract: Bottom-up management in a catchment scale is deemed the efficient way to avoid conflicts among water users through the participation of stakeholders, strategy co-shaping, and solutions co-creation. The incorporation of the stakeholders’ opinion in measures hierarchy introduces discussion and participation while guarantees the measures’ acceptance of the local communities. From a mathematical point of view, provides an acceptable way to assess the weights and sometimes the evaluation of some criteria when dealing with decision support. To comply with this difficult task, two approaches are developed for the assessment of the criteria’s weights. The first one is based on the principle of intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFS) whilst the second is based on the measure of fuzzy similarity. The methodologies are applied in a real case study for the Laspias River watershed, which is characterized by intense agricultural and industrial activity and furthermore and severe water quality issues. Finally, a holistic multicriteria approach is applied which will incorporate the stakeholders’ opinion.
Year: 2024