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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
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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