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Since the environment cannot be considered any more as a free good, but has to be taken into account as a scarce resource, the mathematical techniques developed for organizing economic activities are coming more and more into use in environmental management. The field where this tendency is most pronounced is water quality management, probably because external diseconomies due to environmental damages are most obvious among different users of one and the same body of water (e.g. a river). The mathematical tools applicable in this field are surveyed.
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Stehfest, H. (1980). Applications of Systems Theory and Operations Research to Water Quality Management — A Survey. In: Schwarze, J., von Dobschütz, L., Fleischmann, B., Schneeweiß, C., Steckhan, H. (eds) Vorträge der Jahrestagung 1979 / Papers of the Annual Meeting 1979. Proceedings in Operations Research 9, vol 1979. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-00401-2_2
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