Conceptualizing Hydro-socio-ecological Relationships to Enable More Integrated and Inclusive Water Allocation Planning

on translation of phatic communion and socio-cultural relationships between the characters of the novels

phatic communion is a cultural concept which differs across cultures. according to hofstede (2001), the u.s. tends to have individualistic culture; however, asian countries tend to have collectivistic cultures. these cultures view phatic communion differently. in individualistic cultures like u.s., phatic communion reflects speakers’ socio-cultural relationships in conversations. to see whether...

Combined land-use and water allocation planning

A general framework for a combined land use and water management is described. An optimization problem is formulated that combines combinatorial and spatial characteristics. The aim of the planning is to maximize economic benefit, while minimizing water extraction and transportation cost under ecological constraints. A genetic algorithm is employed endowed with a new neighborhood operator. This...

Integrated hydro-bacterial modelling for predicting bathing water quality

In recent years health risks associated with the non-compliance of bathing 12 water quality have received increasing worldwide attention. However, it is 13 particularly challenging to establish the source of any non-compliance, due to the 14 complex nature of the source of faecal indicator organisms, and the fate and delivery 15 processes and scarcity of field measured data in many catchments a...

Ecological and Socio-ecological Economic Models

Integrated campaign planning and resource allocation in batch plants

In this work, we develop a simple MILP model for simultaneous campaign planning and resource allocation in multi-stage batch plants. We capture several real life scenarios including maintenance planning, product outsourcing, and NPIs and study the effect of various process decisions on the solution of the integrated and resource constrained planning problem. Given the products, their projected ...