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4 Science-Policy Analysis: An Emerging Research Frontier
4 Science-Policy Analysis: An Emerging Research Frontier
Pages 67-80
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Science-Policy Research for Master Planning in Louisiana, which includes policy analysis; collaborative modeling, citizen science, and decision support systems. RESEARCH COMPONENTS OF IWRM: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE NETHERLANDS As explained in Chapter 1, Integrated Water Resource Management strives to view and manage water systems from a comprehensive point of view.
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Full System Description Integrated water resources management practices in the Netherlands entails full assessment of human and environmental systems, which includes description of the following: • Natural resources systems (NRS) -- environmental processes, devel opment alternatives, and potential impacts • Socioeconomic systems (SES)
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From the Netherlands perspective, it would also ideally be coordinated with IWRM at the basinwide and national water policy scales. Computational Framework A computational framework in the Dutch context to support integrated water management includes models and databases that describe various components of the system, in particular the natural resources and socioeconomic systems (often described as a decision support system)
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. Governance research has been a major focus of international water management research over the past decade, shaped in Europe by the Water Framework Directive (Reinhard and Folmer, 2009; Timmerman et al., 2008)
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Pathway Analysis in IWRM The Dutch Delta Programme uses an adaptive approach to meet safety and socioeconomic targets, while remaining flexible as to how and when to implement management interventions. One challenge is to make this adaptive approach operational, and the novel approach adopted in the Netherlands involves adaptation pathway analysis as an alternative to traditional "end-point" scenarios.
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72 FIGURE 4-3 Dutch water planning schematic of water development scenarios, and policy choices. SOURCE: Haasnoot et al., 2013.
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National policies and budgets reflect delta protection as a dominant national priority. This degree of national-level priority is not likely to apply to the Mississippi River delta, its many values to local residents notwithstanding.
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. Interactions among multiple projects entail interesting and important scientific research issues, including the following: • Interactions between structural projects and nonstructural programs • Synergies, complementarities, overlaps, and conflicts • Unexpected consequences, either positive or negative • Relative benefits of a large-scale centralized project compared with a distributed set of small-scale projects • Relationships between strategic and tactical measures for hazards mitigation There is thus an excellent opportunity for the Water Institute and others to build a research program around the multiple types of interaction effects among delta projects and policies.
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Some promising approaches are described below. From Expert Driven Planning to Collaborative Decision Making The Louisiana 2012 Coastal Master Plan process identified multiple objectives for the Gulf coast and then evaluated how combinations of investment and policy alternatives could meet those objectives over time.
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in order to reduce analytical conflict. Analytical conflict might be resolved, but a more ambitious purpose of engagement is to reach agreement about acceptable tradeoffs, as well as economic and environmental mitigation, in order to reduce value and interest conflict.
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In turn, water users and decision makers may be able to use this information to promote better integration across related water sectors. • The Water Institute would have an excellent opportunity to pro mote, and lead, more advanced scientific stakeholder engagement in joint fact finding and modeling processes.
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Potential avenues of citizen-engagement at the Water Institute could include cross-Louisiana coastal community descriptions, water quality, and/or fishery catch "apps" to facilitate ecologically relevant data collection in the delta region; development of digital tools for tracking coastal erosion, marine debris and hazards; and coastal emergency response planning and relief (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2013)
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Social research can shed light on decision behavior and behavior change, decision making under uncertainty, intertemporal preferences, consensus-building, and barriers and pathways to risk reduction. The current situation is characterized by a broad range of partial approaches to DSS in the Mississippi River delta, as in other deltas of the world.
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