Risk/cost analysis of sustainable management of wastewater for irrigation: Supply chain approach

Abstract

The problem considered in this paper is to coordinate the costs and ecological risks of all stakeholders in the environmental water/wastewater supply chain. Using the concept of the environmental supply chain we construct a corresponding decision tree and a risk matrix, which quantitatively estimate the risk level. We propose an economic-mathematical model permitting to mitigate the integrated risk to population and society under economic, technological and social constraints. © 2007 Springer.