Abstract

The increasing awareness of the complexity and uncertainty of environmental processes is changing therole of information production to support decision-making. Monitoring systems need to gather reliableinformation, adopting a multi-scale and integrated approach. Using exclusively technical monitoringmethods to collect the information could result in unsustainable monitoring costs. In order to minimize thecosts and to address the scale issue, the integration of local and technical knowledge is proposed in thiswork. For the implementation of this approach, a tool based on the use of fuzzy logic and geographicinformation system (GIS) technologies was developed. The willingness of the local community to participatein monitoring activitieswas ensured by keeping these activities as simple and close to local knowledgeas possible. The fuzzy GIS-based systemenhances both the comprehensibility of the local knowledge for thedecision-makers and its reliability, making it usable for the decision-making process. The tool was developedto support soil salinity monitoring in the lower Amudarya River Basin in Uzbekistan.

Autore Pugliese

• Giordano Raffaele

Tutti gli autori

• R. Giordano; S. Liersch

Titolo volume/Rivista

Environmental modelling & software

Anno di pubblicazione

2012

ISSN

1364-8152

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