Optimization of Water Management in Regions with Conflicting Interests.Simplified Models

摘要

Authorities in the Netherlands realize that measures are needed for protectingthe environment in regions with intensive livestock breeding and with high-intensity land cultivation. Nitrate leaching and phosphate accumulation need to be controlled, as well as the lowering of groundwater levels. A scenario generating system has been developed for aiding the design and evaluation of control measures. An integrated approach has been followed. Scenarios can be generated by setting requirements on the indicators for the 'well-being' of the various water users. One of the indicators is left free and gets optimized using simplified models that have been implemented in the form of an integrated linear programming (LP) model. Comprehensive models can then be used for verifying and more accurately estimating scenarios that seem promising. (Copyright (c) 1991 The Windand Staring Centre for Integrated Land, Soil and Water Research.)