Sustainability Criteria for Decision Support in the UK Water Industry

1 March 2002

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Vol. 45 (2) , 285-301
https://doi.org/10.1080/09640560220116341

Abstract

The incorporation of sustainability assessment into decision-making processes is a key task for water service providers in the UK and elsewhere. This paper describes the development and application of a set of sustainability criteria, which have been developed and tested with project partners in the UK and Romania. They will be used in a 'guidebook' that will set out a framework to facilitate the inclusion of sustainability in the decision-making process. This work is part of the Sustainable Water Industry Asset Resource Decisions project to develop a multi-criteria analysis decision support system to assist water service providers to assess the relative sustainability of water/wastewater system asset development decisions.

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