Download or read book The Role of Science Stakeholder Engagement and Decision Making Process Design in Advancing Innovation Around Water Management in Massachusetts written by Tyler Andrew Corson-Rikert and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sustainable Water Management Initiative is a multi-stakeholder process that the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs convened in early 2010 to seek advice on how to more sustainably manage the state's water resources. The initiative followed growing scientific understanding of the importance of adequate instream flows to the ecological health of the state's waterways, and several years of political mobilization and litigation by both watershed advocates and water suppliers. The process consists of two committees, one technically- and one policy-oriented, advising the state on its drafting of new water management policies. While this represents an expanded commitment by the state environmental agencies to stakeholder engagement, the initiative does not conform to all best practices in the literature. For example, it does not give participants an opportunity to determine the information they need and interpret it in crafting proposals, nor empower them to vote on potential policies. The initiative does offer an opportunity to explore the influence that science and the choices conveners make in designing a stakeholder engagement process have on the potential for policy innovation within a difficult political context. Focusing on process design and the role of science, this thesis hypothesizes that the sources, management, and stakeholder perceptions of scientific and technical information influence the prospects for generating innovative policies. Examining the ongoing work of the Sustainable Water Management Initiative, it finds that questions arising in the earlier development of watershed science have reemerged in policy discussions, that choices in the management of information shape participants' perceptions of policy proposals, and that water suppliers' and environmentalists' perspectives shape their sometimes conflicting and sometimes congruent views of the science and its use in making policy. These dynamics have then influenced the prospects for building consensus and promoting discussion around innovative policy ideas that could move Massachusetts towards more integrated water resource management. Thus, while the Sustainable Water Management Initiative does not conform to ideal models in the literature, it includes enough best practices in the use of science for policy making to enhance the prospects for water management innovation in the state.

Download or read book Advancing Water Resources Planning Education and Outreach Through Collaborative Modeling and Stakeholder Engagement Methods written by Melanie R. Thornton and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research advances understanding of the strategies, methods and processes that university-affiliated bridging organizations use to enhance long term water resource planning, education, and outreach. This research improves understanding of the role collaborative modeling and stakeholder engagement provides to water resource stakeholders. It supports the body of literature that communicates the importance of building relationships, social capacity and trust, and that learning is an essential component to effective participatory processes. This research demonstrates the necessity of facilitation skills, and the importance of designing an iterative, flexible approach that meets the changing priorities of stakeholders. It concludes with best practices for supporting long-term stakeholder engagement in water resources.

Download or read book Decision making in Water Resource Allocation written by Carl Brown and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Publication Water Resources Research Center University of Massachusetts at Amherst written by University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Water Resources Research Center and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Characterizing and Assessing the Researcher Stakeholder Engagement Process for Water Sustainability written by Laura B. Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural resource management and policy is ideally informed by the best available science. Natural resource researchers ideally participate in broader impacts activities to extend the reach of their best available research. However, there are many cultural, institutional, and practical barriers to participating in broader impact activities and to incorporating science into natural resource use decisions. Researcher-stakeholder engagement is one proposed solution to overcome such barriers and to achieve both broader impact and science-based policy goals. This research explores the research-stakeholder engagement process as a means to achieve those ends. The objective of this study was to document the perceptions of participants in a transdisciplinary researcher-stakeholder engagement process in order to identify its impacts as well as barriers and pathways to its successes. Literature has documented many researcher-stakeholder engagement process case studies where researchers offer lessons learned and speculate on their impacts, but few offer data on the engagement process structure, the stakeholder perspective of the engagement process, or the impacts of collaboration between academic research teams and scientific stakeholders. This work addresses these gaps by taking a closer look at how one team of researchers engaged with its stakeholders and voicing the perceptions of stakeholders in addition to researchers. An exploratory sequential mixed methods approach was used for an in-depth case study of the researcher-stakeholder engagement experience in Willamette Water 2100 (WW2100), a five-year transdisciplinary research project investigating the biophysical and socioeconomic drivers of future water scarcity. Attendance records characterize the individuals participating in each engagement event. Twenty-six semi-structured interviews with key participants were collected, transcribed and analyzed to identify recurring themes. An online survey of all researchers and stakeholders engaged with the project (n=137; response rate = 49%) was then conducted to document their perceptions their motivations to, expectations for, participation in, and outcomes of WW2100. The results presented here were intended to be representative of motivations, expectations, challenges, successes, and outcomes salient to all WW2100 participants. Researchers and stakeholders were motivated to participate for social, knowledge, and utility reasons and held different expectations for the roles they would play, the researcher-stakeholder engagement process itself, and the resulting research results. Four types of challenges were identified: lack of a shared vision, differing professional languages, research complexities, and project management. Participants identified successful outcomes including: overcoming challenges, facilitating learning, greater understanding, conversation among diverse perspectives, and improving and extending research results. Researcher-stakeholder engagement in natural resource research can create more relevant science and achieve scientific broader impact goals. This research offers novel evidence of researcher-stakeholder engagement impacts and proposes more specific criteria for broader impact activity evaluation.

Download or read book Role of Science and Engineering in Decision making Within the State and Regional Water Boards written by William A. Vance and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Water Governance Stakeholder Engagement and Sustainable Water Resources Management written by Sharon B. Megdal and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Water Governance, Stakeholder Engagement, and Sustainable Water Resources Management" that was published in Water

Download or read book Participation in Policy and Practice written by Katrina Domaoal Tavanlar and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Publications of the Water Resources Research Center University of Massachusetts written by University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Water Resources Research Center and published by . This book was released on 1987* with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Workshop Proceedings written by Madge Olson Ertel and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Massachusetts Water Resources Research Center Annual Program Report written by University of Massachusetts (Amherst campus). Water Resources Research Center and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Policy for Developing Water Needs Forecasts for Public Water Suppliers and Communities and Methodology for Implementation written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Decision Process and Trade off Analysis Model for Supply Rotation and Planning written by Tampa Bay Water and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public Participation in the Decision Making Process in a Water Management Agency written by John Angus G. Gillies and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Co Creation for Sustainability written by Christopher Ansell and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Co-Creation for Sustainability brings global SDGs to the local level, explaining local co-creation practices, the creation of collaborative platforms, and the empowerment of stakeholders to have a positive collective impact.

Download or read book Massachusetts Water Resources Authority 5 year Progress Report written by Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Water Supply and Water Scarcity written by Vasileios A. Tzanakakis and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book includes selected papers that has been published in the Water journal Special Issue (SI) on Water Supply and Water Scarcity. Moreover, an overview of the SI is included. The papers selected for publication in the SI include review and research papers on water history, on water management issues under water scarcity regimes, on rainwater harvesting, on water quality and degradation, and on climatic variability impacts on water resources. Overall, the issue identify and highlight the main challenges in water sector, and particularly in management and protection of water resources and in use of alternative (non-conventional) water resources, especially in areas with demographic change and climate vulnerability in order to achieve sustainable and secure water supply. Furthermore, general guidelines and possible solutions for an improved and sophisticated water management system are proposed and discussed, such as the adoption of advanced technological solutions and practices that improve water-use efficiency and the use of alternative water resources, to address the growing environmental and health issues and to reduce the emerging conflicts among water users.