Massoud Behboudian

KTH Royal Institute of Technology | KTH · School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE)

This study compared three uncertainty-based decision-making frameworks (considering/not considering the hierarchical structure of stakeholders) using resilience-based indices for evaluating different water resources management (WRM) scenarios under the impacts of climate change. The first step involved identifying significant stakeholders in the st...

This paper proposes a new framework for evaluating water and environmental resources carrying capacity (WERCC) based on the concept of resilience under uncertainty. First, several quantitative and qualitative criteria based on the seven principles of resilience and the Pressure-Support-State (PSS) framework are defined to incorporate the positive a...

In this paper, a methodology is presented for managing hydrological ecosystem services by taking into account the hierarchy of stakeholders involved in the decision-making process. With this in mind, a water allocation model is first used for allocating water resources to demands. Then, several ecosystem services (ESs)-based criteria are defined to...

Due to the adverse impacts of severe droughts on various aspects of human life and ecosystem services (ESs), the spatio-temporal assessment of the resilience of ESs under droughts is essential. In this paper, we propose a new methodology for assessing ESs-based resilience, taking into account the seven resilience principles: a) redundancy and diver...

This paper introduces a hierarchical multi-agent decision-making framework for Water and Environmental Resources Management Scenarios (WERMSs) under uncertain conditions of climate change and complex agent characteristics. The proposed framework utilizes three Game Theory concepts: the Stackelberg, Bayesian (Incomplete), and Imperfect games, by whi...

In recent years, methods of evaluating the resilience of water resources management projects, especially during extreme conditions, have attracted researchers’ attention. In previous researched, the resilience assessment of water supply and demand scenarios throughout a river basin has not been adequately implemented. In addition, to decide on dete...

This paper introduces a new framework to evaluate the resilience of lakes under climatic and anthropogenic droughts. The proposed hierarchical structure of criteria for assessing lake's resilience has four levels. The first level includes several indices such as long-term resilience, reliability, and implementation cost. In the second to fourth lev...

This paper presents a new framework for evaluating the sustainability of basin-wide ecosystem services (ESs) including provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural services. In this framework, the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and MODSIM models and experts' opinions are used to evaluate the ESs. To show the applicability of the propos...

In recent years, the evaluation of water resource systems' resilience, especially under extreme events (i.e. severe droughts), has been of special interest to researchers. On the other hand, the water resources management issues have been expanded from supplying municipal, environmental, agricultural, and industrial demands to managing ecosystem se...

Rain gauge networks are usually redesigned to improve the accuracy of spatial and temporal estimates and reduce the monitoring costs. In addition to the rain-gauge data, satellite-based data can be used for the optimal redesign of rainfall monitoring networks. Despite high spatial and temporal resolutions of products of meteorological satellites, t...

This paper introduces a new methodology for quantifying the total resilience of water resources management scenarios. The climate change impacts on water supply and demand have been investigated using a calibrated soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) and a MODSIM water allocation model. Several criteria have been defined to measure five aspects of...

This paper introduces a new methodology for evaluating water resource systems' resilience under extreme events by taking advantage of a generalized grade-based technique to combine criteria. To determine extreme events, we evaluate the impacts of climate change scenarios using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). The proposed framework for ev...

This paper introduces a new methodology for evaluating water resources management scenarios considering different aspects of their hydrological ecosystem services. The temporal variations of supplied water to different demands are assessed as provisioning hydrological ecosystem services. Then, three agricultural drought management policies have bee...

Nowadays, balancing the water allocation to environmental and other demand nodes is one of the most ‎important issues in Iran. For instance, an important reason for the critical situation of the Lake Urmia is lack of ‎proper allocation of water for different demand nodes (i.e. the required water allocation for Lake Urmia). It is ‎also important to...

Rainfall and its spatial and temporal variations are one of the most important ‎information in decision making for water resources management. In Iran, ‎various meteorological stations including synoptic, climatological and rain-‎gauge stations are used to monitor rainfall. In recent decades, the use of ‎satellite rainfall data has also been increa...