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

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Anita Fassio (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei)
Carlo Giupponi (Università di Milano and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei)
Jaroslaw Mysiak (UFZ Centre for Environmental Research)

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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.

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Paper provided by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei in its series Working Papers with number 2004.122.

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

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C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods and Programming - - - Computational Techniques
Q25 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Water

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