Authors: Wang Xiaoqin
Publish Date: 2008/08/21
Volume: 23, Issue: 6, Pages: 1171-1182
Abstract
With increasing diversity in the measures for the exploitation and utilization of urban water resources an integrated assessment of these methods social economic and environmental has become a pressing necessity so as to maintain a sustainable development An integrated benefit assessment model IBAM for the urbanwaterresourcerelated policies is therefore established on the basis of the analytic hierarchy process AHP A system of integrated benefit assessment indices SIBAI with comprehensive reflections on social economic and environmental interests is proposed guided by the sustainable concept and the cyclic economic philosophy The IBAM and SIBAI are then applied to such cases as water recycling seawater desalination and the SouthtoNorth diversion project in Tianjin city The results of the comprehensive assessment of these instances can be a theoretical basis for the planning of the exploitation and utilization of water resources in Tianjin and the proposed IBAM may be conducive to the sustainable decisionmaking on water policies for urban areas in general
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