Environmental Systems Decision Models

Year
1

Academic year
2019-2020

Code
03019217

Subject Area
Territory and Environmental Engineering

Language of Instruction
Portuguese

Other Languages of Instruction
English

Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face

Duration
SEMESTRIAL

ECTS Credits
6.0

Type
Elective

Level
3rd Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Engineering Systems

Teaching Methods

Teaching methods: lectures combining theoretical explanations with conceptual and real-case discussions. Activities regarding the development of case studies, workshop and conferencees participation.

Learning Outcomes

To provide the main concepts, principles and theories required to model and solve environmental decision problems, understanding the various issues involved.

Acquiring capabilities in using scientific methods in systemic decision procedures for environmental systyems.

Work Placement(s)

Syllabus

Introduction to environmental systems analysis: conventional versus systemic approaches; optimization models (objective function, constraints, decision variables and exegenous variables); single-objective versus multiple-objective optimization; linear models, non-linear models, integer models, lumped and distributed models, deterministic and stochastic (explicit and implicit) models.

Risk and management of extreme events. Realiable, resilient and Robust envirnmental systems. Operations research techniques: linear, non-linear, dynamic, integer, combinatory programming, heuristic techniques. Introduction to multicriteria analysis. Decision issues in environmental systems: technical, economic, social, legal, environmental and political aspects. Applications of optimization in environmental systems. Decision-aid models for the management of water resources systems, air quality, solid waste, transport, ecosystems services, urban infrastructures.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria da Conceição Morais de Oliveira Cunha

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 10.0%
Resolution Problems: 40.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

Ecker, J., Kupferschmid, M., Introduction to Operations Research, John Wiley & Sons, 2004.

Griffin, R.C., Water Resource Economics: The Analysis of Scarcity, Policies, and Projects. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006.

Hillier, F. and G. Lieberman., Introduction to Operations Research, 9 ed., McGrawHill, NY. 2010.

Karamouz, M., Zahraie, B. & Szidarovszky, F., Water Resources Systems Analysis, Lewis Publishers, 2003.

ReVelle, C., E. Whitlach and J. Wright, Civil and Environmental Systems Engineering, Prentice-Hall, 1997.

Willis, R., Finney, B., Environmental Systems Engineering and Economics, Springer US, 2004.