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Bringing actors together around large-scale water systems: Participatory modeling and other innovations

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The five areas of innovation found in the three case studies have brought actors together in new ways around water management strategies. We paid special attention to the role of participatory modeling, because it has been able to generate new policy options. For such complex and often deadlocked water management issues, new options are at a premium. The cases demonstrate that participatory modeling efforts are a key part of successfully addressing these major water management issues faced in the U.S. as well as elsewhere.

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  1. School of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

    Michel J. G. van Eeten (Associate Professor)

  2. the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, USA

    Daniel P. Loucks (Professor of Environmental Engineering)

  3. Mills College, Oakland, California

    Emery Roe (Barbara M. White Professor of Public Policy)

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Recent publications include Ecology, Engineering and Management: Reconciling Ecosystem Rehabilitation and Service Reliability (with Emery Roe; Oxford: Oxford University Press). Current research interest include the reliability of critical infrastructures (such as electricity, water, telecommunications and the internet) and the development of methods to recast the intractable policy issues. Since 1999, he has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and Mills College, Oakland.

where he teaches and directs research in the application of economic theory and systems analysis methods to the solution of environmental and regional water resources problems. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters, served on various committees of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, and was a U.S. member of an advisory committee for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria.

Emery Roe has published widely on science, technology and environmental controversies, including the debates over large technical systems, sustainable development, and ecosystem management. His books include Narrative Policy Analysis (Duke University Press, 1994), Taking Complexity Seriously: Policy Analysis, Triangulation and Sustainable Development (Kluwer, 1998), Except-Africa: Remaking Development, Rethinking Power (Transaction, 1999), and Ecology, Engineering and Management: Reconciling Ecosystem Rehabilitation and Service Reliability (with Michel van Eeten; Oxford: Oxford University Press).

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van Eeten, M.J.G., Loucks, D.P. & Roe, E. Bringing actors together around large-scale water systems: Participatory modeling and other innovations. Know Techn Pol 14, 94–108 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12130-002-1017-x

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