Reflective communication to improve problem-solving pathways: Key issues illustrated for an integrated environmental modelling case study

Zare, Fateme; Guillaume, Joseph H. A.; Jakeman, Anthony J.; Torabi, Oveis

doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104645

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“…The conceptual pillars of local sustainability, leading to an adaptive plan, should be co-created in a transdisciplinary effort [67][68][69] and via genuine engagement of researchers with local stakeholders. Through co-creation, researchers can combine participatory human deliberation with computational analytical modeling 70 and can integrate the nuances of human factors 55,71 into processes for localizing sustainability. In the following subsections, we explain how this co-creation can be operationalized through transdisciplinary innovation with supporting examples from real-world case studies.…”

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Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Requires Transdisciplinary Innovation at the Local Scale

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“…Validation is critical to confirm or debunk the results of an iteration (Voinov and Bousquet, 2010). Figure 1 shows a pathway example to illustrate how a pathway can graphically capture and document an integrated participatory modelling project in terms of steps and decisions at each step (Zare et al, 2019). The legend table in Figure 1 shows the main elements of a pathway which are the steps, decision forks, actions, documentation and reflection points.…”

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“…The legend table in Figure 1 shows the main elements of a pathway which are the steps, decision forks, actions, documentation and reflection points. For a full description of the essential elements of a pathway diagram, please refer to Zare et al (2019).…”

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Constructing customized modeling guidelines: a Participatory Integrated Assessment and Modeling example

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El Sawah, S. (Ed.) MODSIM2019, 23rd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation.

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As scientific modelling and integrated assessment have matured, a number of best practice guidelines have emerged. While standard guidelines play an important role in setting expectations for repetitive modelling tasks, many problems require a flexible, adaptive approach, meaning that analysts cannot simply follow a single guideline, but rather have to draw on several to construct a process to address their problem. New combined guidelines or meta-guidelines often add further complexity rather than solving the issue. In this paper, we describe two simple ideas to combine multiple guidelines in a way that provides a customizable modelling process: "pathway diagrams" and "ID cards". The former involves thinking of an analysis process in terms of a unique "pathway", divided into a set of steps, including decision forks and points for reflection and iteration. This pathway provides a structure within which steps from guidelines can be inserted. The second idea involves identifying steps recommended within guidelines and annotated them to link them to an "ID card" for that step. Each ID card then provides a quick summary of what has been said about a step across multiple guidelines. While these ID cards can pull in information from a variety of sources, they remain an individual/group's personal summary of the state of knowledge about a step, providing a common language and point of interaction for thinking about and discussing what steps can be inserted into a pathway and why. We provide an example pathway, its steps and an example of the ID card. Specifically, we build and demonstrate a Participatory Integrated Assessment and Modelling pathway drawing on key, highly cited articles. It is hoped that the pathway diagram will help implement the idea of modelling as an adaptive spiral process, containing several iterative loops to reach a fit for purpose model and agreement between stakeholders.

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“…Here the reflexive use of our suggested framework becomes important to provide quality assurance in choosing suitable methods and to promote accountability between researchers in implementation. There is an extensive literature about reflection on theory and methods(33) as well as how reflection should be used to inform participatory modelling(43). Among them, Roux et al(33) and Zare et al(43) have proposed frameworks for co-reflecting on the accomplishment of transdisciplinary research which could be used along with our suggested framework to ensure rigor and build confidence in the assessment of method suitability.…”

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Evaluating participatory modelling methods for co-creating pathways to sustainability

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is a preprint and has been submitted for publication in Earth's Future. Please note that, the manuscript's status in the journal is currently 'contacting potential reviewers' for a peer-review process. It has yet to be accepted for publication. Subsequent versions of this manuscript may have slightly different content. If accepted, the final version of this manuscript will be available via the 'Peer-reviewed Publication DOI' link on the righthand side of this webpage. Please feel free to contact the corresponding author; we welcome feedback.

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Reflective communication to improve problem-solving pathways: Key issues illustrated for an integrated environmental modelling case study

Cited by 27 publications

References 49 publications

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Requires Transdisciplinary Innovation at the Local Scale

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Requires Transdisciplinary Innovation at the Local Scale

Constructing customized modeling guidelines: a Participatory Integrated Assessment and Modeling example

Evaluating participatory modelling methods for co-creating pathways to sustainability

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