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

9874924加西亚，厄帕姆布鲁克分水岭，是一个城市分水岭，位于衰落的市中心和以增长为导向的县与老化的郊区的交界处。这条小溪汇入奇卡霍米尼河之前的最后五英里已被确认为严重污染，威胁到分水岭内居民和饮用流经该分水岭的水的居民的健康。这一分水岭的状况，以及居民对这种状况的反应，提出了对生物科学和社会科学至关重要的问题--关于维持和减少动植物生命的生物过程，促进社区成长和衰落的社会过程，维持威胁健康的行为的心理机制，以及政治制度设置的制度障碍。这项拟议的研究将整合城市规划、社会心理学、城市政治学、城市设计、生物学和决策建模等多学科领域，研究这些基本问题，并在时机上为决策者、土地利用规划者和公民提供一个基于科学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.