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Collaborative, Stakeholder-Driven Resource Modeling and Management
Howard Passell (Sandia National Laboratories, USA), Marissa Reno (Sandia National Laboratories, USA), Jesse Roach (Sandia National Laboratories, USA), Vince Tidwell (Sandia National Laboratories, USA), and Wael Khairy (National Office of Egypt, Egypt)
Copyright: © 2011
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-907-1.ch003
Abstract
It is becoming increasingly difficult to manage natural resources due to population growth, increasing resource consumption, and decreasing resource availability, among other issues. To address this, we present a collaborative, stakeholder-driven resource modeling and management approach that has been applied successfully around the world. Diverse stakeholder groups assure that all important systems, data, and knowledge are represented. User-friendly, system dynamics models with short run times allow users to quickly simulate alternative resource management strategies, making the models valuable for public meetings and for informing and educating stakeholders, policy makers, and citizens. This approach also facilitates capacity building in regions where collaborative processes and modeling technologies are not widespread. Case studies illustrate the application of these approaches in the United States, Jordan, and Libya, as well as the Aral Sea Basin and Tigris-Euphrates Basin. We show how the models look and work, and the kinds of results that can be produced.