Integrated assessment: A growing child on its way to maturity

Rotmans, Jan; Asselt, Marjolein van

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“…Integrated assessment approaches are interdisciplinary, and possibly participatory processes, of combining, interpreting and communicating knowledge from diverse sources to allow a better understanding of complex phenomena (Rotmans and Asselt, 1996). They assemble the needed knowledge and information from a wide range of scientific disciplines and put them into a policy oriented context (Toth and Hizsnyik, 1998).…”

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Critical multi-level governance issues of integrated modelling: An example of low-water management in the Adour-Garonne basin (France)

Mazzéga

Thérond

Debril

et al. 2014

Journal of Hydrology

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OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. This is an author-deposited version published in : http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/ Eprints ID : 14792 This paper presents the experience gained related to the development of an integrated simulation model of water policy. Within this context, we analyze particular difficulties raised by the inclusion of multilevel governance that assigns the responsibility of individual or collective decision-making to a variety of actors, regarding measures of which the implementation has significant effects toward the sustainability of socio-hydrosystems. Multi-level governance procedures are compared with the potential of modelbased impact assessment. Our discussion is illustrated on the basis of the exploitation of the multi-agent platform MAELIA dedicated to the simulation of social, economic and environmental impacts of lowwater management in a context of climate and regulatory changes. We focus on three major decisionmaking processes occurring in the Adour-Garonne basin, France: (i) the participatory development of the Master Scheme for Water Planning and Management (SDAGE) under the auspices of the Water Agency; (ii) the publication of water use restrictions in situations of water scarcity; and (iii) the determination of the abstraction volumes for irrigation and their allocation. The MAELIA platform explicitly takes into account the mode of decision-making when it is framed by a procedure set beforehand, focusing on the actors' participation and on the nature and parameters of the measures to be implemented. It is observed that in some water organizations decision-making follows patterns that can be represented as rule-based actions triggered by thresholds of resource states. When decisions are resulting from individual choice, endowing virtual agents with bounded rationality allows us to reproduce (in silico) their behavior and decisions in a reliable way. However, the negotiation processes taking place during the period of time simulated by the models in arenas of collective choices are not all reproducible. Outcomes of some collective decisions are very little or not at all predictable. The development and simulation of a priori policy scenarios capturing the most plausible or interesting outcomes of such collective decisions on measures for low-water management allows these difficulties to be overcome. The building of these kind of scenarios requires close collaboration between researchers and stakeholders involved in arenas of collective choice, and implies the integration of the production of model and the analysis of scenarios as one component of the polycentric political process of water management.

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Section: Integrated Assessment and Modelling Of Water Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical multi-level governance issues of integrated modelling: An example of low-water management in the Adour-Garonne basin (France)

Mazzéga

Thérond

Debril

et al. 2014

Journal of Hydrology

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“…These have been received many names but in general their purpose is to go beyond traditional ways or "normal science" to deal with urgent environmental complex problems with inherent uncertainties and diversity of knowledge and value judgement involved. It is worth to mention some of them: Science of Surprise (Holling, 1986), Post-normal science (Funtowicz et al, 1990;, Civic Science (Lee, 1993), Mode II-science (Gibbons et al, 1994; Nowotny et al, 2003) Rotmans et al (1996) defined IA as "an interdisciplinary and participatory process of combining, interpreting and communicating knowledge from diverse scientific disciplines to achieve a better understanding of complex phenomena". According to Schneider (1997), Toth and Hizsnyik (1998), Tol and Vellinga (1998), and Van der Sluijs, (1996), essential feature that characterize the practices of IA are: that inter-disciplinary work provides an added and differentiated scientific value that cannot be obtained by simply adding knowledge produced by single disciplines; environmental, social and economic aspects of the problem should be integrated.…”

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“…Parson (1995) Rotmans et al (1996) defined IA as "an interdisciplinary and participatory process of combining, interpreting and communicating knowledge from diverse scientific disciplines to achieve a better understanding of complex phenomena". According to Schneider (1997), Toth and Hizsnyik (1998), Tol and Vellinga (1998), and Van der Sluijs, (1996), essential feature that characterize the practices of IA are:…”

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“…As we have discussed in Chapter 3, among new approaches, and mostly during the last decade, Integrated Assessment (IA) (Parson, 1995, Rotmans et al 1996, Tàbara 2003 has emerged as an applied field of science for policy research, with a number of new tools and methods 32 which can be used for deal with environmental problems in coastal areas, enriching problems' framing and becoming more creative in finding solutions to be make coasts more adaptable and resilient to changing environments. In particular, integrating different types of knowledge sources, from expert to non-expert, qualitative and quantitative, as well as different interests, values, and perceptions with expert tools (e.g.…”

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Equipamentos para a Educação Ambiental na zona costeira da Euroregião do Eixo Atlântico – Das práticas conservacionistas às sociocríticas

Carvalho¹,

Azeiteiro²,

Cartea³

2011

RGCI

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III AgraïmentsEstem a primers dels 2008. Abans de tancar aquesta etapa i proposar-me nous reptes no puc deixar de mirar enrera i recordar l'immens suport que he rebut de tantíssimes persones. Entre tots heu contribuit a donar forma a aquest projecte i aquestes línies volen fer-vos arribar el meu profund agraïment i la gran satisfacció em queda de què m'hagueu acompanyat durant aquesta llarga travessia.Començo pels meus directors. La Míriam em va iniciar en les ciències socials quan ens vam conèixer en el projecte Eurosion. Gràcies a la seva presència des del bon principi i al seu paper més enllà de lo professional, és en gran part la responsable de què hagi arribat a bon port. El David amb el seu entusiasme i les ganes d'innovar ha sigut un bon estímul.El finançament de la recerca no ha faltat mai gràcies als següents projectes i institucions:-Projecte Europeu Eurosion (2002)(2003)(2004) En aquests projectes he tingut la sort de treballar amb investigadors de diverses disciplines que han enriquit la meva capacitat integradora i m'han acostat a altres llenguatges. Entre ells, no puc deixar de citar a la petita gran familia d'Eurosion: el Jordi, l'Oriol i la Carlota. Del gran col·lectiu que fomava el MevaPlaya vull agraïr especialment les aportacions i critiques del Jose i la complicitat de l'Edu. També, han tingut un gran paper la gran colla d'enquestadors i amicsMireia, Irene, Alba, Martí, Daniela, Sílvia, Montse, Javi, Feliu, Esther-que amb tanta il·lusió es van oferir per ajudar-me a cobrir les platges en tres temporades. Em plau molt haver pogut combinar amistat i feina en diverses ocasions, com en el projecte Messina que vam realitzar conjuntament amb el Gonzalo de qui vaig aprendre sobre multicriteri. L'estudi de la percepció social requereix la disposició desinteressada de molts entrevistats i enquestat als qui vull agrair el temps que em van dedicar, la majoria d'ells amb una gran predisposició. També agrair l'ajuda de la Bet en les transcripcions i la Rosa en la realització d'algunes entrevistes.Per mi, la vessant més afectiva d'aquesta etapa ha estat fonamental i completament imprescindible. Sense dubte, el doctorat no hagués estat el mateix sense la gran companyia dels becaris de l'ICTA amb qui ens hem divertit i també recolçat durant aquest llarg procés. El balanç final és definitivament positiu. Agraeixo als veïns de la ETC-TE que m'hagin acollit como una més i, en particular a l'Alex pel suport cartogràfic.Finalment agrair als meus pares, l'Alba i els amics per ser-hi sempre. Moltes gràcies a tots! IV V AbstractCoasts are some of the most valuable ecosystems on Earth. However, not only coasts hold some of the most biodiverse and productive landscapes but at the same time they are some of the most coveted by humans. Current trends on demographic growth and urbanization indicate that in the near future the anthropic pressure in coastal areas is very likely to intensify. Climate change adds new risks and uncertainties to the dynamics of coastal systems and their management.The management of most Medit...

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“…These differ from risk assessment in two important ways: they are specifically concerned with the health consequences of policy or other interventions, and thus are focused on change; and in this context they consider both positive and negative effects of interventions, and try to assess the balance of these different effects in order to guide decision making. In addition, over recent years, the practice of integrated assessment has emerged as ''an interdisciplinary and participatory process of combining, interpreting and communicating knowledge from diverse scientific disciplines to allow a better understanding of complex phenomena'' (Rotmans and van Asselt 1996). Though as yet applied in only a limited way to health issues, this has been widely used to analyse global problems such as climate change and long-range air pollution, and has been adopted by the European Environment Agency to underpin environmental assessment and reporting (European Environment Agency 2005).…”

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Uncertainty in epidemiology and health risk and impact assessment

Briggs

Sabel

Lee

2008

Environ Geochem Health

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Environmental epidemiology and health risk and impact assessment have long grappled with problems of uncertainty in data and their relationships. These uncertainties have become more challenging because of the complex, systemic nature of many of the risks. A clear framework defining and quantifying uncertainty is needed. Three dimensions characterise uncertainty: its nature, its location and its level. In terms of its nature, uncertainty can be both intrinsic and extrinsic. The former reflects the effects of complexity, sparseness and nonlinearity; the latter arises through inadequacies in available observational data, measurement methods, sampling regimes and models. Uncertainty occurs in three locations: conceptualising the problem, analysis and communicating the results. Most attention has been devoted to characterising and quantifying the analysis-a wide range of statistical methods has been developed to estimate analytical uncertainties and model their propagation through the analysis. In complex systemic risks, larger uncertainties may be associated with conceptualisation of the problem and communication of the analytical results, both of which depend on the perspective and viewpoint of the observer. These imply using more participatory approaches to investigation, and more qualitative measures of uncertainty, not only to define uncertainty more inclusively and completely, but also to help those involved better understand the nature of the uncertainties and their practical implications.

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Integrated assessment: A growing child on its way to maturity

Cited by 174 publications

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Critical multi-level governance issues of integrated modelling: An example of low-water management in the Adour-Garonne basin (France)

Critical multi-level governance issues of integrated modelling: An example of low-water management in the Adour-Garonne basin (France)

Equipamentos para a Educação Ambiental na zona costeira da Euroregião do Eixo Atlântico – Das práticas conservacionistas às sociocríticas

Uncertainty in epidemiology and health risk and impact assessment

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