TA659 : Identification and Prioritization of Transboundary Water Management Issues Using Fuzzy Clustering (Case Study: Harirood River)
Thesis > Central Library of Shahrood University > Civil & Architectural Engineering > MSc > 2021
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Common water resources have caused tensions as well as partnerships across the regional to international levels. Undoubtedly, identifying the factors influencing the management of such resources will be a prerequisite for bilateral or multilateral negotiations to resolve existing tensions and establish cooperation between stakeholders in shared resources. Therefore, in this article, an attempt has been made to identify the effective parameters from a hydropolitical point of view with a comprehensive look at the issues of transboundary water resources management and to categorize them in an innovative frxamework. The approach used to achieve this goal is the deep review of existing literature in this field as well as the use of remote sensing to study different criteria. Harirud basin as one of the obvious examples of transboundary water issues is involved in specific challenges between the three countries of Iran, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan and may be a suitable choice for covering different factors in this field. An innovative frxamework baxsed on four areas of political, economic, social and environmental as the main dimensions of water diplomacy is presented and baxsed on the opinion of experts and masters in three Simple Additive Weighting methods (SAW), Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Clustering (FCM) are prioritized. The results show that in order to reach a comprehensive and lasting agreement in the process of bilateral or multilateral negotiations, the greatest focus should be on the political and economic areas and in the form of economic, political, national security, international relations and water economy. In this regard, paying attention to the sub-criteria of water management, management of available water resources, superiority of geographical location and hydrology of the catchment, stability of political sovereignty, food security, water and energy exchanges, water trade and adherence to agreements, treaties and contractswill have the greatest impact on the negotiation process.
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#Keywords: Water diplomacy #Hydropolitics #Fuzzy clustering #Harirod #Doosti Dam Keeping place: Central Library of Shahrood University
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