Note: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Making decisions: a difficult problem -- 1.1 Interventions, actions and decisions -- The Egyptian Water Plan -- 1.2 Difficulties and keys to their solutions -- 1.3 Planning: the PIP procedure -- 1.4 The decision-making levels -- 1.5 A multi-level MODSS: TWOLE -- 1.6 Monitoring -- Part A: Setting the Verbano Project -- Chapter 2. Reconnaissance: territory, Stakeholders and regulation -- 2.1 The territory -- 2.2 The Stakeholders -- 2.3 The regulation of the lake -- 2.4 Dissatisfaction -- 2.5 The Decision Makers -- 2.6 The Goal -- Chapter 3. The options for interventions -- 3.1 Modifying the outlet -- 3.2 Norms for hydropower reservoirs -- 3.3 Modifying the regulation range -- 3.4 Minimum environmental flow -- 3.5 Designing a different regulation -- 3.6 Other interventions -- 3.7 Actions and alternatives -- Chapter 4. Criteria and indicators -- 4.1 Sectors and criteria -- 4.2 Hierarchies of criteria -- 4.3 Examples of indicators -- 4.4 Alternatives, indicators and indices -- 4.5 The indicators of the Verbano Project -- Chapter 5. Defining actions and formulating the Design Problem -- 5.1 Types of actions -- 5.2 Regulation actions -- 5.3 Structural and normative actions -- 5.4 Solving the Design Problem -- Chapter 6. Identifying the Model -- 6.1 The structure of the model -- 6.2 The models of the single units -- 6.3 The time step -- 6.4 The notation -- 6.5 The catchment -- 6.6 The lake -- 6.7 The diversion nodes -- 6.8 Confluence points -- 6.9 The sectors and the indicators -- 6.10 The model of Verbano water system -- Chapter 7. The Control Problem -- 7.1 The design time horizon -- 7.2 How a design indicator is identified -- 7.3 The design indicators for Verbano -- 7.4 Verifying the design indicators -- 7.5 The design scenario -- 7.6 Formulating the Control Problem. , 7.7 Solving the Control Problem: SDP -- 7.8 Discretization of the system and computing time -- Chapter 8. Estimating Effects[text=]BBB -- 8.1 Uncertainty and stochasticity -- 8.2 Choosing the inflow series -- 8.3 The evaluation scenario -- 8.4 The extractor: the model of the Regulator -- 8.5 Validating the indicators -- Chapter 9. Evaluation -- 9.1 Multi-Attribute Value Theory -- 9.2 The value functions -- 9.3 Identifying the partial value functions -- 9.4 Identifying the global value function -- 9.5 A special case: the value function for the ENEL Power sector -- 9.6 Validating the value function -- Chapter 10. Comparison -- 10.1 The Comparison Method -- 10.2 Preliminaries to the Comparison phase -- 10.3 Identification of alliances -- 10.4 Mitigation -- 10.5 Identification of the reasonable alternatives -- Part B: Identifying the reasonable alternatives -- Chapter 11. Designing Alternatives and Evaluation -- 11.1 Designing Alternatives -- 11.2 Estimating Effects -- 11.3 Validating the indicators -- 11.4 Evaluating the alternatives -- Chapter 12. Comparison: the first negotiation step -- 12.1 Sharing the results of the evaluation -- 12.2 Preliminary analysis -- 12.3 Individual exploration -- 12.4 A0's performance -- 12.5 Negotiations -- 12.6 The results of the first negotiations step -- Chapter 13. Comparison: the second negotiation step -- 13.1 Designing the alternatives -- 13.2 The second negotiation step -- 13.3 The least-bad alternatives -- Chapter 14. Mitigation measures -- 14.1 The effects on Downstream Flooding -- 14.2 Mitigation measures for Downstream Flooding -- 14.3 Mitigation for Upstream Environment -- 14.4 Mitigation for the other sectors -- 14.5 The third negotiation step -- Part C: The Final Decision -- Chapter 15. Summary of the Project -- 15.1 The Problem -- 15.2 The development of the Project. , 15.3 The reasonable and least-bad alternatives -- 15.4 Mitigation measures -- 15.5 Monitoring -- Chapter 16. The Final Decision -- 16.1 The decision -- 16.2 Which future for the decision? -- Chapter 17. Implementation -- 17.1 Designing other interventions -- 17.2 Management and the POLFC scheme -- References -- Index.