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This Chapter focuses on the development of a Decision Support System (DSS) for Asopos River Basin (RB) in order to achieve the holistic management of water resources and their ecosystems in the catchment area. As a result, the final output of this application is to identify measures that will contribute to the restoration of the ecosystem in Asopos River. The chapter at a first stage introduces the steps involved in the development of the DSS. Then the deliverables of this process are reported. Important components of the DSS include the gathering of available studies in the area, creation of a database of meteorological and hydrological parameters in the area, estimation in space and time of the parameters of the hydrological table and identification of pressures related to water resources in the area. Further components include the valuation of functions in the catchment, building of different scenarios conditional on changes on precipitation, temperature and water use, estimation in space and time of changes on the parameters of the hydrological table and pressures under the different scenarios. Finally, the DSS suggests measures for the economically efficient, environmentally sustainable and socially equal management of the basin. The considered measures involve among others a number of economic instruments such as standards and quotas, water abstraction taxes, pollution taxes, subsidies, tradable permits, voluntary agreements and liability legislation. It is expected that these instruments can provide the appropriate incentives for efficient water resources management.
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Doulgeris, C., Katsavouni, S., Papadimos, D. (2014). An Economically Efficient, Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Equitable Decision Support System for Asopos River Basin: A Manual of Measures. In: Koundouri, P., Papandreou, N. (eds) Water Resources Management Sustaining Socio-Economic Welfare. Global Issues in Water Policy, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7636-4_9
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