Designing a Causal Model of Water Consumption Management Using the FDelphi-FDANP Hybrid Approach (Case Study of Mazandaran Water & Wastewater company)
Subject Areas :
Industrial Management
habibollah dadashi
1
(
Ph.D. Candidatein Industrial Management, College of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Babol Branch, Babol, Iran
)
ali Sorayaei
2
(
Assistant Professor, Department of Management, College of Humanities, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
)
seyed ali Nabavi Chashmi
3
(
Associate Professor, Department of Management, College of Humanities, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
)
Received: 2020-11-20
Accepted : 2021-03-06
Published : 2021-05-18
Keywords:
fuzzy Delphi,
water consumption,
Fuzzy DANP,
Demand Management,
Abstract :
Limitations of drinking water resources, the country's dry and water shortage, population growth and demand, improper water consumption in recent decades and unbalanced temporal and spatial distribution of water resources are very important. The need to change the methods of managing drinking water demand and anticipate new demands has increased by analyzing the Effective factors water consumption. The purpose of this article is to provide a model for prioritizing water consumption management strategies in the home sector. Information was collected through library research in this field and interviews with water industry experts. Then, by sampling snowballs to form a Delphi panel with a fuzzy approach, the factors that were more comprehensive were identified that finally They agreed 7 main factors economic, social, cultural, technical and engineering, legal and managerial, Place and Time with 26 effective sub-criteria. To evaluate the degree of importance and relationship between factors and prioritization of sub-criteria using fuzzy DANP technique. The results showed that the main factor technical and engineering factors with the degree of importance (0.144), time (0.790) and cultural (0.040) as an effective have a significant impact on water consumption and the effective sub-criteria are diversification in supply, per capita income, population, consumer interests, tariffs and pricing, length of stay at home, consumption motivation, infrastructure level, female employment, network pressure and modify consumption patterns programs.
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Ahmadi, F., Nasiriani, K. & Abazari, P. (2008). Delphi technique as a tool in research. Iranian Journal of Medical Education, 175-185. (In Persian).
Agthe, D., & Billings, B. (2002). Water price inQuence on apartment complex water use. Water Resour Pla, Manag, 128, 366-369.
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Brounen, D., Kok, N., & Quigley, J. M. (2012). Residential energy use and conservation: Economics and demographics. European Economic Review,56(5),931-945.
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Salimi, A., Noori, A., Bonakdari, H. & Sharifi, E. (2020). Exploring the Role of Advertising Types onImproving the Water Consumption Behavior: An Application of Integrated Fuzzy AHP and Fuzzy VIKOR Method. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1232; https://doi:10.3390/su12031232. (in persian).
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