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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 17
KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS FOR CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper VI.2

A Decision Support System to Assist Stakeholders Evaluate a Water Resource Project

W.J. Grenney* W.W. Wallace+ and T. Senti*

*Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University
+Terrestrial Ecosystems Regional Research and Analysis Laboratory, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
W.J. Grenney W.W. Wallace, T. Senti, "A Decision Support System to Assist Stakeholders Evaluate a Water Resource Project", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Knowledge Based Systems for Civil & Structural Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 145-151, 1993. doi:10.4203/ccp.17.6.2
Abstract
There are innumerable ways that water resource projects can impact watersheds. More often than necessary, significant impacts are overlooked during the planning and design process, and come to light only after a project has been implemented and damage has occurred. The Terrestrial Ecosystems Regional Research and Analysis (TERRA) Laboratory in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA is developing a decision analysis methodology (DAM) that includes computer hardware and software, and documented procedures for using these tools in a structured analysis for land and water resource allocation decision scenarios. One of the first steps in the DAM is to identify the stakeholders and to involve them in the early stages of the planning and design process. This paper describes a rule-base decision support system that has been developed to assist the stakeholders with selecting and describing important impacts, and subsequently with collecting the concerns of all stakeholders into a consolidated inventory.

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