2411-3336 2541-9404 Записки Горного института Journal of Mining Institute Санкт-Петербургский горный университет императрицы Екатерины ΙΙ Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University pmi-5206 https://pmi.spmi.ru/pmi/article/view/5206 Геоэкология и безопасность жизнедеятельности Geoecology and occupational health and safety Application of morphological analysis to policy formulation for wastewater treatment Buzuku Shqipe Buzuku Shqipe Buzuku Shqipe Shqipe.Buzuku@lut.fi (Финляндия) School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland) Kraslawski Andrzej Kraslawski Andrzej Kraslawski Andrzej Andrzej.Kraslawski@lut.fi (Финляндия) Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Lodz; School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland) 25 08 2015 2015 214 102 108 27 10 2014 24 12 2014 25 08 2015 © Shqipe Buzuku, Andrzej Kraslawski 2015 Shqipe Buzuku, Andrzej Kraslawski Shqipe Buzuku, Andrzej Kraslawski CC BY 4.0 https://pmi.spmi.ru/pmi/article/view/5206

Wastewater treatment, water protection and conservation, and rational water use are impor-tant elements of water management. The goals of water management are achieved by implementation of a set of appropriate policy measures creating a coherent policy. However; policy formulation is a complex decision-making problem involving a large number of stakeholders and many possible measures. The objective of this work is to implement a method for facilitating decision-making and identify suitable policy measures for the location and operation of wastewater treatment facilities. This type of problem is very complex and is usually formulated with many contradictory requirements. It is an example of a socalled wicked problem, for which the application of traditional multi-objective decision-making approaches has clear limitations. In this paper, Morphological Analysis (MA), an approach applicable to wicked problems, is used to structure policy measures relevant to the problem of the location and operation of waste-water treatment facilities. The application of MA enables identification and selection of stake-holders, decision-making criteria and policy measures to tackle legal, financial, technical, social and environmental aspects of wastewater treatment.

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