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- Title
Multiple criteria decision making and decision support systems for flood risk management.
- Authors
Levy, Jason K.
- Abstract
Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) is a collection of methodologies to compare, select, or rank multiple alternatives that typically involve incommensurate attributes. MCDM is well-suited for eliciting and modeling the flood preferences of stakeholders and for improving the coordination among flood agencies, organizations and affected citizens. A flood decision support system (DSS) architecture is put forth that integrates the latest advances in MCDM, remote sensing, GIS, hydrologic models, and real-time flood information systems. The analytic network process (ANP) is discussed with application to short-term flood management options for the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. It is shown that DSS and MCDM can improve flood risk planning and management under uncertainty by providing data displays, analytical results, and model output to summarize critical flood information.
- Subjects
FLOODS; MULTIPLE criteria decision making; DECISION making; DECISION support systems; REMOTE sensing; GEOGRAPHIC information systems; FLOOD forecasting; HYDROLOGICAL forecasting
- Publication
Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment, 2005, Vol 19, Issue 6, p438
- ISSN
1436-3240
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00477-005-0009-2