Supporting stakeholders to anticipate and respond to risks in a Mekong River water-energy-food nexus

Gallagher, Louise; Kopainsky, Birgit; Bassi, Andrea M.; Betancourt, Andrea J.; Buth, Chanmeta; Chan, Puthearath; Costanzo, S. D.; Freeman, Sarah; Horm, Chandet; Khim, Sandab; Neang, Malyne; Rin, Naroeun; Ken, Sereyrotha; Sok, Kimchhin; Sovann, Chansopheaktra; Thieme, Michele; Watkins, Karina; Wyborn, Carina; Bréthaut, Christian

doi:10.5751/es-11919-250429

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“…The primary purpose of the model is to explore the impact of alternative policies or scenarios on the long-term dynamics of water and society. In support of that goal, as advocated by Gallagher et al [30], this work develops system dynamics tools that lay the groundwork for future collaborative modeling with our stakeholders.…”

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Integrated Policy Solutions for Water Scarcity in Agricultural Communities of the American Southwest

Langarudi

Maxwell

Fernald

2021

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The conventional approach of policy interventions in water management that focus on the portions of the system that directly relate to water often lead to unintended consequences that potentially exacerbate water scarcity issues and present challenges to the future viability of many rural agricultural communities. This paper deploys a system dynamics model to illustrate how expanding the policy space of hydrology models to include socioeconomic feedbacks could address these challenges. In this regard, policies that can potentially mitigate general water scarcity in a region of the American Southwest in southern New Mexico are examined. We selected and tested policies with the potential to diminish water scarcity without compromising the system’s economic performance. These policies included supporting choices that reduce or limit the expansion of water-intensive crops, promoting workforce participation, encouraging investment in capital, and regulating land use change processes. The simulation results, after the proposed boundary expansion, unveiled intervention options not commonly exercised by water decision-makers, bolstering the argument that integrated approaches to water research that include socioeconomic feedbacks are crucial for the study of agricultural community resilience.

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Integrated Policy Solutions for Water Scarcity in Agricultural Communities of the American Southwest

Langarudi

Maxwell

Fernald

2021

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“…However, in order to verify the levels of importance of these criteria is normally required a decision support tool. Systematizing these criteria by using a decision support tool with experts or relevant stakeholders in Cambodia is also important; for example, participatory system dynamics modelling is quite significant [19]. The technique to verify their priority weights in Cambodia is also significant, especially the technique using a pairwise comparison method to analyze the importance of criteria (priority weights).…”

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Sustainable Building Plan-Design, Construction, Performance, and Renovation Criteria

Chan¹,

Khoeng²,

Ung³

et al. 2021

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Published data or available literature on sustainable building plan-design, construction, performance, and renovation criteria have covered some stages or some parts of each stage. These data usually have been published partially in many different papers―there have not been any papers that published these data together. Hence, this paper aims to collectively review these data and publish them together. The collection and review of these data were carried out by our twenty-five team members who specialized in sustainable urban, architectural, and civil engineering and construction management. The gathered and reviewed outputs were combined and validated based on a general group consensus. This consensus decision-making proceeded through two major group meetings with several follow-up meetings. The first major meeting was to combine and improve the gathered reviewed sustainable building criteria for Cambodia. The second major meeting was to validate the improved reviewed sustainable building criteria for Cambodia. The several follow-up meetings were to discuss the relevance and importance of the validated data “criteria and their classifications and descriptions” in all stages and more focused on their importance and applicability to Cambodia. The collective reviewed data in this paper would be useful to researchers in the fields. They could also be useful collective knowledge and information for policymakers from governmental agencies and development partners, particularly for sustainable building and construction companies.

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“…SD simulation models run quickly and do not require high computing power; the approach is also particularly useful in environments where quantitative data is scarce and integration of qualitative data (e.g. expert opinion) could be used to address knowledge gaps (Luna-Reyes and Andersen, 2003;Gallagher et al, 2020).…”

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Using Participatory System Dynamics Modeling to Address Complex Conservation Problems: Tiger Farming as a Case Study

Rieder

Larson

Sas‐Rolfes

et al. 2021

Front. Conserv. Sci.

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Conservation practitioners routinely work within complex social-ecological systems to address threats facing biodiversity and to promote positive human-wildlife interactions. Inadequate understanding of the direct and indirect, short- and long-term consequences of decision making within these dynamic systems can lead to misdiagnosed problems and interventions with perverse outcomes, exacerbating conflict. Participatory system dynamics (SD) modeling is a process that encourages stakeholder engagement, synthesizes research and knowledge, increases trust and consensus and improves transdisciplinary collaboration to solve these complex types of problems. Tiger conservation exemplifies a set of interventions in a complex social-ecological system. Wild tigers remain severely threatened by various factors, including habitat constraints, human-wildlife conflict, and persistent consumer demand for their body parts. Opinions differ on whether commercial captive tiger facilities reduce or increase the threat from poaching for trade, resulting in policy conflict among diverse stakeholder groups. This paper explains how we are working with international conservation partners in a virtual environment to utilize a participatory SD modeling approach with the goal of better understanding and promoting coexistence of humans and wild tigers. We highlight a step-by-step process that others might use to apply participatory SD modeling to address similar conservation challenges, building trust and consensus among diverse partners to reduce conflict and improve the efficacy of conservation interventions.

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Supporting stakeholders to anticipate and respond to risks in a Mekong River water-energy-food nexus

Cited by 24 publications

References 4 publications

Integrated Policy Solutions for Water Scarcity in Agricultural Communities of the American Southwest

Integrated Policy Solutions for Water Scarcity in Agricultural Communities of the American Southwest

Sustainable Building Plan-Design, Construction, Performance, and Renovation Criteria

Using Participatory System Dynamics Modeling to Address Complex Conservation Problems: Tiger Farming as a Case Study

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