Collaborative environmental planning in river management: An application of multicriteria decision analysis in the White River Watershed in Vermont

Hermans, Caroline; Erickson, Jon D.; Noordewier, Tom G.; Sheldon, A.; Kline, Mike

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.07.013

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“…They are able to take account of the overall social and economic goals, including the achievement of sustainable development [21]. Many researchers [6,17,18,22,23] that studied the IWRM presented that the key of the application of IWRM in the watershed is the sustainable environmental, social, and economic factors. This was the reason that why the goal of this model follows the key of IWRM, which was sustainable watershed management in the Pranburi watershed.…”

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“…Group criteria (C2): According to [22] of the FAO, "supporting stakeholders in managing their water resources means supporting stakeholders to make choices and to reach a common understanding on the necessary arrangements for sharing and equitable allocation of water related goods and services".…”

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confidence: 99%

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Analytic Hierarchy Process for Stakeholder Participation in Integrated Water Resources Management

Thungngern¹,

Sriburi²,

Wijitkosum³

2017

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Abstract. This paper focuses on the applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) to develop a model for water resource management in the Pranburi watershed by using stakeholder participation. The hierarchy model structure of the Pranburi watershed was developed by the experts based on IWRM and classified into 4 criteria, 15 sub-criteria, and 3 alternatives. The questionnaire method was the tool used for obtaining a weighing for comparison between the pairs of criteria obtained from community representatives. The finding revealed that the important criteria are the environmental factors. The highest ranked of the alternatives is the watershed planning strategy. These results implied that community focused stakeholder participation in the decision-making process for water resources in Pranburi watershed gave a positive outcome. This research clearly presented the capability of the AHP approach integrates with IWRM principle for water resource planning. The AHP approach can analyze the community representative's relevant data before decision making, by applying pairwise comparison of the AHP technique, can reduce bias during decision making. More importantly, the government should support collaboration with local officers and the community in the decision making policy on water resource planning.

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Section: Establishment Of the Hierarchical Model Structuring By The Ementioning

confidence: 99%

Analytic Hierarchy Process for Stakeholder Participation in Integrated Water Resources Management

Thungngern¹,

Sriburi²,

Wijitkosum³

2017

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“…Landmark federal legislation in the 1960s and 1970s, alongside emergence of participatory models of planning, have created an avenue for citizen and stakeholder input in community plan making (Godschalk et al 2003, Hermans et al 2007). Participation in environmental decision making has ranged greatly from simple public comment and hearing processes all the way to participatory action research.…”

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Understanding stakeholder preferences for flood adaptation alternatives with natural capital implications

Loos¹,

Rogers²

2016

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Inland flood risks are defined by a range of environmental and social factors, including land use and floodplain management. Shifting patterns of storm intensity and precipitation, attributed to climate change, are exacerbating flood risk in regions across North America. Strategies for adapting to growing flood risks and climate change must account for a community's specific vulnerabilities, and its local economic, environmental, and social conditions. Through a stakeholder-engaged methodology, we designed an interactive decision exercise to enable stakeholders to evaluate alternatives for addressing specific community flood vulnerabilities. We used a multicriteria framework to understand what drives stakeholder preferences for flood mitigation and adaptation alternatives, including ecosystem-based projects. Results indicated strong preferences for some ecosystem-based projects that utilize natural capital, generated a useful discussion on the role of individual values in driving decisions and a critique of local environmental and hazard planning procedure, and uncovered support for a river management alternative that had previously been considered socially infeasible. We conclude that a multicriteria decision framework may help ensure that the multiple benefit qualities of natural capital projects are considered by decision makers. Application of a utility function can demonstrate the role of individual decision-maker values in decision outcomes and help illustrate why one alternative may be a better choice than another. Although designing an efficient and accurate multicriteria exercise is quite challenging and often data intensive, we imagine that this method is applicable elsewhere. It may be especially suitable to group decisions that involve varying levels of expertise and competing values, as is often the case in planning for the ecological and human impacts of climate change.

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“…The goal of involvement different ministries is to help identify and implement mechanisms that encourage members to find ways to become involved in analyzing the complexity of implementation projects. Multi-criteria decision analysis is an umbrella approach that has been applied to a wide range of water management situations and helps to frame a group process that made stakeholder preferences explicit and substantive discussions about long-term river management possible [40,41]. The need for coordinated data collection has been proposed as salient features of a coordinated observation program for water resources management [42].…”

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Challenges of Integrated Water Resources Management in Indonesia

Fulazzaky

2014

Water

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Abstract:The increased demands for water and land in Indonesia as a consequence of the population growth and economic development has reportedly have been accelerated from the year to year. The spatial and temporal variability of human induced hydrological changes in a river basin could affect quality and quantity of water. The challenge is that integrated water resources management (IWRM) should cope with complex issues of water in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner, without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems. Even though the government of Indonesia has adopted new paradigm for water resources management by the enactment of Law No. 7/2004 on water resources, the implementation of IWRM may face the technical and managerial challenges. This paper briefly reviews the implementation of IWRM and related principles and provides an overview of potential water-related issues and progress towards implementation of IWRM in Indonesia. The availability of water and a broader range of water-related issues are identified. The recommended actions for improving the future IWRM are suggested. Challenges to improve the capacity buildings of IWRM related to enabling environment, institutional frameworks and management instruments are verified to contribute to the future directions for efficient problem-solving ability.

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Collaborative environmental planning in river management: An application of multicriteria decision analysis in the White River Watershed in Vermont

Cited by 96 publications

References 22 publications

Analytic Hierarchy Process for Stakeholder Participation in Integrated Water Resources Management

Analytic Hierarchy Process for Stakeholder Participation in Integrated Water Resources Management

Understanding stakeholder preferences for flood adaptation alternatives with natural capital implications

Challenges of Integrated Water Resources Management in Indonesia

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