An imprecise fuzzy risk approach for water quality management of a river system

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3653-3664

  Rehana, S ^a   Mujumdar, P P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Fuzzy optimization; Interval grey number; Missing data; Risk; Uncertainty; Waste load allocation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; RANDOM PROCESSES; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

FUZZY OPTIMIZATION; FUZZY RISK; INTERVAL GREY NUMBER; LOW WATER; MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS; MISSING DATA; RIVER SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY; WASTE LOAD ALLOCATIONS; WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

WATER QUALITY;

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MULTIOBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RIVER SYSTEM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUZZY SYSTEM; HYDROLOGY; INDIA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLLUTION CONTROL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; SIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TUNGABHADRA RIVER;

TUNGA;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RIVERS; WATER;

EID: 69249230947     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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