title: A decision support framework for sustainable urban water planning and management in new urban areas.
abstract: The paper discusses issues of decision support within the context of sustainable development and more specifically sustainable water cycle management to provide a context and a rationale for the decision support approach adopted within an on-going U.K. EPSRC-funded project, WaND. The paper proposes a set-up for a flexible, upgradeable, efficient and modular decision support framework and associated tools. Furthermore, the paper presents early prototypes of three decision support tools developed within the proposed framework including initial results for one of them.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Water Systems, School of Engineering, University of Exeter, Devon, UK. c.makropoulos@exeter.ac.uk
authors.forename: C K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Makropoulos
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morley
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Memon
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Butler
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Savic
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Ashley
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities; D002958:City Planning; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D014872:Water Movements; D014881:Water Supply