Decision support system for economic assessment of water improvements in remote, low-resource settings
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چکیده
Since most people without access to safe water services live in remote areas of developing countries, assessing the economics of rural water developments poses a globally pressing challenge. This study seeks to: (1) outline the rural (non-networked) water development decision process in a systematic way; (2) incorporate that process into a modeling tool in order to conduct consistent economic analysis of developments across a wide range of contexts, and (3) assess the performance and potential applications of this tool. We introduce AWARE, a recently developed Decision Support System, to provide a generalized model of the processes and constraints related to the advancement of rural water services. AWARE enables robust comparisons to be made across a wide range of social, economic, physical, technical and management approaches. We demonstrate that it performs adequately, and propose that, despite its generalized approach, it will be useful for informing both development strategies and field projects. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Software availability The AWARE software is available for download at no cost at: https:// dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24352729/DSS.zip Developers: Adam Abramson, Eilon Adar, Sylvie Massoth & Naftali Lazarovitch; Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR); Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Midreshet Ben-Gurion, 84990 Israel E-mail: [email protected] Year first available: 2013 Hardware requirements: Microsoft Windows PC Software requirements: Microsoft Excel, HYDRUS-1D Program language: VBA Program size: 8.1 MB
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Environmental Modelling and Software
دوره 62 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014