PMID- 31294108
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20200930
IS  - 2405-8440 (Print)
IS  - 2405-8440 (Electronic)
IS  - 2405-8440 (Linking)
VI  - 5
IP  - 6
DP  - 2019 Jun
TI  - Human risk assessment of Panchet Dam in India using TOPSIS and WASPAS 
      Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methods.
PG  - e01956
LID - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01956 [doi]
LID - e01956
AB  - Every river dam activity has definite beneficial effects but cannot circumvent 
      its negative impact in the long run. The Panchet dam has been commissioned as a 
      multipurpose river valley project under the authority of Damodar Valley 
      Corporation (DVC) across the river Damodar at the border of West Bengal and 
      Jharkhand states of India in 1959 to overcome some problems like flood control, 
      supply of irrigation, domestic and industrial water, hydroelectric power 
      generation etc. But it has now become a threat to the surrounding people, due to 
      rapid sedimentation and reduction in its water holding capacity. Human risk 
      assessment of the dam thus claims importance and such an effort is executed in 
      this work using Delphi Questionnaire and two Multi-Criteria Decision-Making 
      (MCDM) methods viz. Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal 
      Solution (TOPSIS) and Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment (WASPAS). At 
      first 9 human risk alternatives (A1-A9) of the dam are identified using Delphi 
      Questionnaire and rated them in order to prioritize using TOPSIS and WASPAS 
      methods. Risk prioritization results of TOPSIS and WASPAS show somewhat 
      differences. The integrated 'Mean-Rank' method is applied to provide final 
      priority ranking of the risk alternatives and the result is: A3 > A9 > A8 > A4, 
      A6 > A1 > A7 > A5 > A2 (when WASPAS parameter lambda = 0); A3 > A9 > A4, A8 > A2 > A6 
      > A1 > A5, A7 (when WASPAS parameter lambda = 1); A3 > A9 > A8 > A4, A6 > A1 > A2 > A5 
      > A7 (when WASPAS parameter lambda = 0.5). In all cases, A3 (Population Displacement) 
      alternative ranks first and is identified as the top most risk prone alternative 
      among all. The risk of displacement of people due to further inundation of land 
      is rising gradually. This has motivated us for assessment of other human risks of 
      the dam in the work.
FAU - Bid, Sumanta
AU  - Bid S
AD  - Department of Geography, The University of Burdwan, Golapbag - 713104, Purba 
      Barddhaman, West Bengal, India.
FAU - Siddique, Giyasuddin
AU  - Siddique G
AD  - Department of Geography, The University of Burdwan, Golapbag - 713104, Purba 
      Barddhaman, West Bengal, India.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20190621
PL  - England
TA  - Heliyon
JT  - Heliyon
JID - 101672560
PMC - PMC6595191
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Human risk assessment
OT  - MCDM
OT  - Multipurpose river valley project
OT  - Panchet dam
OT  - Safety engineering
OT  - TOPSIS & WASPAS
EDAT- 2019/07/12 06:00
MHDA- 2019/07/12 06:01
PMCR- 2019/06/21
CRDT- 2019/07/12 06:00
PHST- 2018/09/05 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/12/23 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/06/12 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/07/12 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/07/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/07/12 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2019/06/21 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S2405-8440(19)35567-7 [pii]
AID - e01956 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01956 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Heliyon. 2019 Jun 21;5(6):e01956. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01956. eCollection 
      2019 Jun.