Paleoclimate Scenarios to Inform Decision Making in Water Resource Management: Example from Southern California’s Inland Empire

2014 ◽  
Vol 140 (10) ◽  
pp. 04014025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbie H. Tingstad ◽  
David G. Groves ◽  
Robert J. Lempert
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Inland Empire ◽  
Inform Decision Making

scholarly journals Integrating Sustainable Water Resource Management and Land Use Decision-Making

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 2282
Author(s):  
Heidi L. N. Moltz ◽  
Carlington W. Wallace ◽  
Erfaneh Sharifi ◽  
Karin Bencala
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Sustainable Water Resource ◽  
Sustainable Water Resource Management

Human uses of land and water are directly linked and must, therefore, be managed with each other in mind. This paper puts forward an approach for integrating sustainable water resource management into local land use decision-making in the Potomac basin. The approach includes developing a clear understanding of the current regulatory, programmatic, and financial approaches to land use management; identifying opportunities from innovation; and developing a flexible, stakeholder-based framework for moving forward. Four opportunities for innovation were identified in the Potomac basin utilizing this approach, including enhancing coordination and access to information, promoting incentives to achieve desired outcomes, encouraging and promoting innovation, and integrating programs to achieve multiple objectives. The successful integration of land and water decision-making requires a sustained, long-term commitment to improvement rather than a one-time fix mentality. Initial steps for implementation include identifying and engaging diverse partners, as well as establishing channels for information dissemination. The lessons learned from this work may prove valuable to decision-makers in other regions to holistically manage diverse land and water resources.

scholarly journals Water–Energy Nexus for Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Water Resource Management: A Case Study of Choshui River Basin in Taiwan

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengshan Lee ◽  
Chia-Yii Yu ◽  
Pen-Chi Chiang ◽  
Chia-Hung Hou
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Environmental Stability ◽  
Water Energy Nexus ◽  
Freshwater Resource

The Choshui river basin, the mother river in Taiwan, suffers from severe water shortage from extensive water use in irrigation as well as land subsidence from over-pumping of groundwater. To address these challenges, several water-related strategies and actions, including enhancement of water-use efficiency, development of alternative water sources, and improvement in effective water management, were proposed in this study to support sustainable water resource management in the watershed. Management of water resources in Taiwan is expected to confront not only freshwater resource but also energy source constraints. Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), an approach for ranking overall performances of decision options, was then used to prioritize the water resource management strategies. The analysis considered economic (economic feasibility) and environmental (stability from the influence of climate change) criteria in the context of water–energy nexus (water supply/conservation potential and systemic energy efficiency). Our results indicated that, while economic feasibility was considered as the most important factor in implementation of the practices, improvement in groundwater pumping control and management was ranked as a high-priority water resource management action, followed by initiating water conservation programs for residential sector and reducing leakage rate for agricultural irrigation canals. The results from this study are expected to provide direction for future decision making in water resource management.

scholarly journals User Stories-Based Requirement Elicitation for Data Visualization to Support Decision Making in Water Resource Management at Bago River Basin

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-323
Author(s):  
Akira Kodaka ◽  
Akiyuki Kawasaki ◽  
Naruhiko Shirai ◽  
Ralph Allen Acierto ◽  
Win Win Zin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
End Users ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Requirement Elicitation ◽  
User Stories

Understanding of system requirements that satisfy end users’ needs is fundamental of system development, yet challenging when end users are unable to address their needs explicitly. Although a number of scholars have been designing and applying requirement elicitation techniques, there is a research gap in Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) with Web-based Geographical Information System (Web-GIS) in water resource management for disaster risk reduction. The gap addresses especially design elicitation techniques and their performances 1) to understand data types used for decision making, 2) set timing for sharing the data to accomplish end users’ tasks, and 3) compile the data to be represented so as to facilitate end users’ decision making. This study therefore designed a requirement elicitation technique by advancing User Story Mapping (USM) and validated through a workshop using mock-up system interface with potential end users who are in charge of water resource management in Myanmar’s Bago River Basin. Through the research it could be validated that the user stories-based approach enabled end users to decompose their operation activities into tasks. It also allowed them to link to necessary data with visual image for facilitating their task accomplishments and decision making for water resource management. It was revealed that the benefits of using the designed approach are not only just to summarize necessary data and information for end users’ decision making but also to encourage them to proactively consider data utilization into their operations. For further development of the requirement elicitation to understand end users needs, insights and recommendations for the proposed technique designing and conducting of the workshop were obtained.

scholarly journals Socio-Psychological Perspectives on the Potential for Serious Games to Promote Transcendental Values in IWRM Decision-Making

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1097 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianna Marini ◽  
Wietske Medema ◽  
Jan Adamowski ◽  
Samuel Veissière ◽  
Igor Mayer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Value Change

Modern day challenges of water resource management involve difficult decision-making in the face of increasing complexity and uncertainty. However, even if all decision-makers possessed perfect knowledge, water management decisions ultimately involve competing values, which will only get more prominent with increasing scarcity and competition over resources. Therefore, an important normative goal for water management is long-term cooperation between stakeholders. According to the principles of integrated water resource management (IWRM), this necessitates that managerial decisions support social equity and intergenerational equity (social equity that spans generations). The purpose of this discussion is to formulate preliminary recommendations for the design of serious games (SGs), a potential learning tool that may give rise to shared values and engage stakeholders with conflicting interests to cooperate towards a common goal. Specifically, this discussion explores whether SGs could promote values that transcend self-interest (transcendental values), based on the contributions of social psychology. The discussion is organized in the following way. First, an introduction is provided as to why understanding values from psychological perspectives is both important for water management and a potential avenue for learning in SGs. Second, a review of the description of values and mechanisms of value change from the field of social psychology is presented. This review highlights key psychological constraints to learning or applying values. Based on this review, recommendations are made for SGs designers to consider when developing games for water management, in order to promote transcendental values. Overall, the main conclusions from exploring the potential of value change for IWRM through SGs design are as follows: 1-SGs design needs to consider how all values change systematically; 2-SGs design should incorporate the many value conflicts that are faced in real life water management, 3-SGs could potentially promote learning by having players reflect on the reasoning behind value priorities across water management situations, and 4-value change ought to be tested in an iterative SGs design process using the Schwartz’s Value Survey (SVS) (or something akin to it).

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