Download Full Text (640 KB) Decision-making problems in water
resources are often associated with multiple objectives and
multiple stakeholders. To enable more effective and acceptable
decision outcome, it is required that more participation is
ensured in the decision making process. This is particularly
relevant for flood management problems where the number of
stakeholders could be very large. Although application of multi-
objective decision-making tools in water resources is very wide,
application with the consideration of multiple stakeholders is
much more limited. The solution methodologies adapted for multi-
objective multi-participant decision problems are generally
based on aggregation of decisions obtained for individual
decision makers. This approach seems somewhat inadequate when
the number of stakeholders is very large, as often is the case
in flood management. The present study has been performed to
have an overview of existing solution methodologies for multi-
objective decision making approaches