An Integrated Multi-Objective Decision Analysis Model for an Urban Watershed in the Richmond, VA Metropolitan Area

9874924 加西亚厄本溪流域是一个城市流域，位于一个衰落的内城和增长型县与老龄化的郊区的界面。 小溪在与奇克霍米尼河汇合之前的最后五英里已被确定为受到严重污染，威胁到生活在流域内的居民和饮用流经流域的水的人的健康。提出了一些对生物科学和社会科学至关重要的问题--关于维持和减少植物和动物生命的生物过程的问题。促进社区发展和衰落的社会过程，维持威胁健康行为的心理机制，以及政治制度设置的制度障碍。 拟议的研究将整合城市规划，社会心理学，城市政治，城市设计，生物学和决策建模领域的多学科研究工作，以研究这些基本问题，并在去的时间，提供决策者，土地利用规划师和公民以科学为基础的多目标决策分析模型。

9874924 Garcia The Upham Brook watershed is an urban watershed that lies at the interface of a declining inner city and growth-oriented county with aging suburbs. The last five miles of the brook before it joins with the Chickahominy River has been identified as so dangerously polluted that it threatens the heath of the residents who live, in the watershed and those who drink water that runs through it. This watershed's condition, and the residents' response to this condition, raises questions that are fundamental to biological sciences and social sciences - questions concerning the biological processes that sustain and diminish plant and animal life., the social processes that promote the growth of a community and its decline, the psychological mechanisms that sustain health-threatening behaviors, and the institutional barriers put in place by be political system. The proposed research will integrate the fields of urban planning, social psychology, -urban politics, urban design, biology and decision-modeling in a multi-disciplinary research effort to examine these fundamental questions, and in go timing, provide decision-makers, land use planners, and citizens with a science-based multiobjective decision analysis model.