Chapter Three Bridging the Gaps Between Design and Use: Developing Tools to Support Environmental Management and Policy

McIntosh, Brian S.; Giupponi, Carlo; Voinov, Alexey; Smith, Courtland L.; Matthews, Keith; Monticino, Michael; Kolkman, M.J.; Crossman, Neville D.; Ittersum, M.K. van; Haase, Dagmar; Haase, Annegret; Myšiak, Jaroslav; Groot, J.C.J.; Sieber, Stefan; Verweij, P.J.F.M.; Quinn, Nigel W.T.; Waeger, P.; Gaber, Noha; Hepting, Daryl H.; Schölten, H.; Sulis, Andrea; Delden, Hedwig van; Gaddis, Erica; Assaf, Hamed

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“…Despite these advantages and the increase of model use in policy (van Daalen et al 2002), model use has been argued to fall short of its potential (Mcintosh et al 2008;Turnpenny et al 2009). Several explanations for this gap have been put forward.…”

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“…Several explanations for this gap have been put forward. For instance, Mcintosh et al (2008) concluded that it is partly a result of the different perceptions of model users and model developers on what a model should look like. Van Delden et al (2011) suggested a lack of transparency, inflexibility and a focus on technical capabilities as significant impediments to the acceptance of models in policy.…”

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“…The use of models in policy has been said to fall short of its potential (Mcintosh et al 2008;Turnpenny et al 2009). Moreover, research on the broader subject of model use is argued to be in its infancy (McIntosh et al 2007) and some contend that this research field has failed to progress over the last few decades (Syme et al 2011).…”

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How to build models for government: criteria driving model acceptance in policymaking

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Models are used to inform policymaking and underpin large amounts of government expenditure. Several authors have observed a discrepancy between the actual and potential use of models in government. While there have been several studies investigating model acceptance in government, it remains unclear under what conditions models are accepted. In this paper, we address the question ''What criteria affect model acceptance in policymaking?'', the answer to which will contribute to the wider understanding of model use in government. We employ a thematic coding approach to identify the acceptance criteria for the eight models in our sample. Subsequently, we compare our findings with existing literature and use qualitative comparative analysis to explore what configurations of the criteria are observed in instances of model acceptance. We conclude that model acceptance is affected by a combination of the model's characteristics, the supporting infrastructure and organizational factors.

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“…Learning aspects in the AMIS are not about the monitoring as a simple process or its data, but about an increase of the system understanding, communication between stakeholders to influence decision making (McIntosh et al, 2006). While giving floor to and later using knowledge, concerns, demands, and expertise from different points of view, which result from a stakeholder involvement, one will indeed achieve better decision making with more alternatives of choice on the one hand, and a broader and more balanced acceptance of the decision making in management.…”

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Monitoring Information Systems to Support Adaptive Water Management

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“…It could be considered a transit from a sectoral approach to more holistic water resources management (Cao, 2006). The use of models has revealed essential to work with several variables and scales interacting in time and space (Jakeman and Letcher, 2003;McIntosh et al, 2008). Different models have been used such as hydrological, water allocation, and aquifer models.…”

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Assessment of Ecosystem Services and Water Accounting Methodologies for Integrated Water Resources Management in water scarce basins.

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However, the existing methodologies are disconnected from the real requirements of water resources planning and management in complex river basins such as the ones suffering from water scarcity. The Water Accounting frameworks adopt a financial accounting perspective that is too exhaustive for the purpose of transmitting the relevant water stocks and flows for water managers and users in a river basin, and that entail less accuracy in the global water balance. Also, the analysed Ecosystem Assessment Tools overlook the influence of water management as well as the temporal and spatial variability of water resources and demands. This Thesis proposes methodologies for Water Accounting and EcosystemServices Assessment which overcome the identified limitations and are especially adapted to be implemented in water scarce river basins. The Australian Water Accounting Standards are simplified to avoid exhaustive accounting for the sake of accuracy and transparency of water management information. An improved version is fully designed, and some criteria are proposed to guide its implementation at river basin scale with the purpose of improving public information and governance. A set of Integrated Water Resources Management Tools embedded in the DecisionSupport System AQUATOOL is tailored with economic information in order to obtain the benefits of three Freshwater Ecosystem Services considering the influence of water management with a detailed time step.The application of the resulting methodologies to different cases of study show the relevance of adopting a water management perspective in order to capture all the complexity of water scarce river basins in the results, so that they are useful for informed decision making. The Water Accounting results disclose synthesised and relevant information for water users and Finally, the methodologies are put into context inside the Integrated Water Resources Management process that covers the target variables to consider, the tools that allow analysing the influence of management actions on them, the indicators that are more informative to water managers, and the ways to transmit the information to the general public.Furthermore, the types of analyses which can be conducted with the proposed methodologies are detailed, and illustrated with examples in scientific literature.The presented research is based on published work, which is expanded or detailed, and includes other non published material. The result is a Thesis that provides improved results and conclusions with respect to the stand-alone papers.v Resumen A pesar de que la planificación y gestión de los recursos hídricos ha evolucionado enormemente, existe todavía discordancia entre la misma y la Gestión Integrada de Recursos Hídricos. A la luz de la Directiva Europea Marco del Agua y otras Políticas Europeas relacionadas con el agua y la sostenibilidad, la Contabilidad del Agua y la evaluación de los Servicios de los Ecosistemas se han identificado como herramientas que pueden ayudar a aproximarse a la Gestión Integrada ...

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Chapter Three Bridging the Gaps Between Design and Use: Developing Tools to Support Environmental Management and Policy

Cited by 32 publications

References 42 publications

How to build models for government: criteria driving model acceptance in policymaking

How to build models for government: criteria driving model acceptance in policymaking

Monitoring Information Systems to Support Adaptive Water Management

Assessment of Ecosystem Services and Water Accounting Methodologies for Integrated Water Resources Management in water scarce basins.

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