One of the principal projects of the Task on Environmental Quality Control and Management in IIASA's Resources and Environmental Area is a case study of eutrophication management for Lake Balaton, Hungary. The case study is a collaborative project involving a number of scientists from several Hungarian institutions and IIASA (for details see WP-80-187).
Most of the Balaton models to date have focused upon simulating the physical and biochemical processes which determine the nutrient loading from the watershed and the resulting lake water quality. This study uses the loading/lake response information from previous work to identify least cost management alternatives for improving lake quality. Two approaches to economic optimization models are developed in generalized form and then applied to the Balaton problem
