Application of Systems Thinking to the assessment of an institutional development project of river restoration at a campus university in Southern Brazil

Tasca, Fabiane Andressa; Goerl, Roberto Fabris; Michel, Gean Paulo; Leite, Nei Kavaguichi; Sérgio, Djesser Zechner; Belizário, Saman; Caprario, Jakcemara; Finotti, Alexandra Rodrigues

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“…Governance that fails to recognize the systems nature of decision-making (Thompson et al 2018) produces fragmentation and duplication of authority, policy inconsistencies and high transaction costs (Folke et al 2005). Action, then, is often compartmentalized and fragmented, where the bigger, integrated picture is lost (Tasca et al 2020). Several common patterns have emerged that encompass the body of persistent challenges now facing the practice in e-flows.…”

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“…When governance fails to address the entrenched interests and legitimate expectations of water allocation from stakeholders, other limitations represent only incidental hurdles for implementing e-flows. For instance, the need for education, stakeholder engagement, or better data and science has been recognized in the literature (Harwood et al 2018, Conallin et al 2018a, Mezger et al 2019, Tasca et al 2020, Owusu et al 2022. Technological fixes alone, however, are unlikely to overcome historical and structural impediments to cooperation.…”

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“…Consequently, systems thinking aspects have been applied to understand and address a wide range of issues in different settings, including environmental policy (Castro 2022). Tasca et al (2020) identified a need to bring systems thinking more generally into water resources planning and management because of the increasing complexity, scope, and urgency of environmental issues. The authors illustrate how a river system can be represented as a sociohydrological system with hierarchically organized sub-systems at successively lower levels (e.g.…”

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“…Unfortunately, international collaboration has been mostly limited among the countries with the most scientific production, namely the USA (particularly California), Australia and the UK, followed by the Netherlands, Canada, Germany and South Africa. A lack of cross-collaboration in scientific research can also be a limiting factor to e-flow implementation, as most river research still operates within local paradigms (Tasca et al 2020), especially when considering the bias in the literature with a prevalence of regions with a Mediterranean-montane climate (notably California, Australia, Chile, and South Africa).…”

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Overcoming persistent challenges in putting environmental flow policy into practice: a systematic review and bibliometric analysis

Dourado

Rallings

Viers

2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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BackgroundThe implementation of environmental flows (e-flows) aims to reduce the negative impacts of hydrological alteration on freshwater ecosystems. Despite the growing attention to the importance of e-flows since the 1970s, actual implementation has lagged. Therefore, we explore the limitations in e-flows implementation, their systemic reasons, and solutions.MethodsWe conducted a systematic review and a bibliometric analysis to identify peer-reviewed articles published on the topic of e-flows implementation research in the last two decades, resulting in 68 research and review papers. Co-occurrence of terms, and geographic and temporal trends were analyzed to identify the gaps in environmental water management and propose recommendations to address limitations on e-flows implementation. We identify the underlying causes and potential solutions to such challenges in environmental water management.Review ResultsThe limitations to e-flow implementation identified were categorized into 21 classes. The most recognized limitation was the competing priorities of human uses of water (n=29). Many secondary limitations, generally co-occurring in co-causation, were identified as limiting factors, especially for implementing more nuanced and sophisticated e-flows. The lack of adequate hydrological data (n=24) and ecological data (n=28) were among the most mentioned, and ultimately lead to difficulties in starting or continuing monitoring/adaptive management (n=28) efforts. The lack of resource/capacity (n=21), experimentation (n=19), regulatory enforcement (n=17), and differing authorities involved (n=18) were also recurrent problems, driven by the deficiencies in the relative importance given to e-flows when facing other human priorities.DiscussionIn order to provide a clearer path for successful e-flow implementation, system mapping can be used as a starting point and general-purpose resource for understanding the sociohydrological problems, interactions, and inherited complexity of river systems. Secondly, we recommend a system analysis approach to address competing demands, especially with the use of coupled water-energy modeling tools to support decision-making when hydropower generation is involved. Such approaches can better assess the complex interactions among the hydrologic, ecological, socioeconomic, and engineering dimensions of water resource systems and their effective management. Lastly, given the complexities in environmental water allocation, implementation requires both scientific rigor and proven utility. Consequently, and where possible, we recommend a move from simplistic flow allocations to a more holistic approach informed by hydroecological principles. To ease conflicts between competing water demands, water managers can realize more “pop per drop” by supporting key components of a flow regime that include functional attributes and processes that enhance biogeochemical cycling, structural habitat formation, and ecosystem maintenance.

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Viers

2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…A captação e uso da água da chuva é considerada uma técnica compensatória simples, de atuação local (BAPTISTA, NASCIMENTO, BARRAUD, 2015) que atenua as demandas de água para fins não potáveis e os impactos da urbanização no regime das águas urbanas, intensificados pelas mudanças climáticas (MARINOSKI, RUPP, GHISI, 2018; CAMPISANO et al, 2017). Estes benefícios são potencializados com a associação destes sistemas com outras técnicas compensatórias e ações de governança que valorizam as pessoas e seus diferentes contextos socioculturais(CAMPISANO et al, 2017;TASCA et al, 2019).…”

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Meio Ambiente, Sustentabilidade E Tecnologia – Volume 9

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Application Research on the Integration of Civil Engineering and Computer Aided Building System Under the Background of BIM Development

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Yao

2022

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Application of Systems Thinking to the assessment of an institutional development project of river restoration at a campus university in Southern Brazil

Cited by 16 publications

References 42 publications

Overcoming persistent challenges in putting environmental flow policy into practice: a systematic review and bibliometric analysis

Overcoming persistent challenges in putting environmental flow policy into practice: a systematic review and bibliometric analysis

Crescimento e produção de pornunça em relação a diferentes fontes de adubos orgânicos disponíveis em regiões semiáridas

Application Research on the Integration of Civil Engineering and Computer Aided Building System Under the Background of BIM Development

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