Developing water quality management policies for the Chitgar urban lake: application of fuzzy social choice and evidential reasoning methods

Chitgar Lake is an artificial urban lake located in northwestern of Tehran, the capital city of Iran. It is estimated that the lake becomes highly eutrophic in the near future. In this paper, a methodology is presented for evaluating different water supply and water quality management policies proposed for this lake by utilizing evidential reasoning (ER) and fuzzy social choice (FSC) methods. The ER method can handle different kinds of...