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6 Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-Agency Synthesis
6 Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-Agency Synthesis
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It is invaluable to stakeholders to clearly demonstrate with understandable metrics that a decision support tool works and that science is clearly being brought into the discussion in a meaningful way, he commented. Policy makers currently view ecosystem services as a mechanism to ensure that biological and physical characteristics relate to economic valuation.
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Such collaboration is invaluable given the diverse missions and supporting science and technology programs: diverse expertise, laboratories, degrees of financial support, computer and other support systems, and flexibility in making use of public-private partnerships. One avenue for collaboration, he said, is to pursue interagency and intergovernmental personnel exchanges (e.g., Intergovernmental Personnel Act Mobility Program (IPA)
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.1 The CPCX was created to help USACE staff anticipate, prevent, and manage water conflicts by ensuring the public interest was incorporated into USACE decision-making processes. The CPCX accomplished this by expanding the application of collaborative tools to improve water resources decision making, providing training, conducting research, and applying the application of collaborative process techniques and model ng tools to prevent and minimize water conflicts.
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It is important for the members of a stakeholder collaboration to focus on common interests and not individual positions. Other important principles include developing multiple options, using objective criteria, and developing an alternative to the collaboration.
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BOX 6-1 Ten Basic Principles of an Effective Stakeholder Collaboration • Clarity of purpose (informed commitment and commitment to use the process to inform decisions) • Timeliness in relation to decisions • Inclusiveness (balanced, voluntary representation)
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One example was the ACE Basin Project, which w`as a 200,000-acre coastal conservation effort. It is considered one of the largest and most successful land conservation efforts in South Carolina.4 The ACE Basin Project protects a vital part of the South Carolina coast between Charleston to the north and Beaufort/ Hilton Head to the south, both of which are rapidly developing urban areas.
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Engaging in stakeholders and communication processes will lead to the successful implementation of multi-resource management projects. Joseph Kiesecker from The Nature Conservancy commented that the need for a shared vision for a landscape was a concept that emerged from the anelists' p presentations.
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Bingham provided from Maryland related to a disagreement over Clean Water Act funding allocation. Scientists upstream related nutrient issues to phosphorus loading, but those downstream related the issues to nitrogen loading.
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Structured decision analysis, she said, is important not only for outcomes, but also as a way of communicating with stakeholders. Landscape planning and ecosystem services analysis often do not fully take into consideration the step of addressing who benefits from the analysis -- demographic results should be included into the analyses of ecosystem services.
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Dr. Burke concluded that it may be useful to develop best practices for decision analysis tools and multi-criteria or multi-resource assessments to ensure consistency in results.
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