| Title | A FUZZY DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM TO ENHANCE STAKEHOLDERS' PARTICIPATION IN WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT |
| Abstract | The Integrated Water Management (IWM) stresses the interrelationships among different types of management actions at different levels of influence, coordinating the stakeholders? behaviour. Consequently, the stakeholders? involvement in any decision making process is a key point in the IWM. Such a managerial approach, based on the stakeholders' participation, recognizes the inherent systemic complexity of the environmental management and the importance of mutual learning, conflict management, and iterative and adaptive decision-making processes as means for dealing with such a complexity. A successful watershed management process has to be participatory, allowing the stakeholders working together to set criteria for sustainable management, to identify priorities and constraints, to evaluate possible solutions, to recommend technologies and policies, and, finally, to monitor and evaluate any possible impact. These processes are often affected by conflicts of interest, which need to be solved through a joint negotiation among the involved stakeholders. For these reasons, any kind of support for handling a fair, rational and efficient debate and for achieving agreements and compromises is strongly desirable. In this contribution, an electronic agora system, capable to facilitate both the meeting among different stakeholders involved or interested in a water management decision and the negotiation process among them, is described. Obviously, involving different actors in any managerial process, means to respect their point of view of the considered problem. The proposed system is a reliable tool to assist individuals and groups in representing and communicating their own perspectives. Furthermore, the system can support in creating the, so called, "communities of interests", which gather all the stakeholders having similar needs. In this research work, the definition of "fuzzy semantic distance" between the judgments expressed by each stakeholder is used as a clustering method. The resulting clusters are, then, used for a cooperative solution of the problem. The validation phase is made applying the system to a watershed in Apulia region, selecting different stakeholders with their management tasks and interests. |
| Source | 1st EGU General Assembly, Nizza (FRA), 25-30 Aprile 2004Geophysical research abstracts |
| Journal | Geophysical research abstracts |
| Editor | Copernicus GmbH, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germania |
| Year | 2004 |
| Type | Abstract in atti di convegno |
| Authors | GIORDANO R., PASSARELLA G., URICCHIO V.F. |
| Text | 119322 2004 A FUZZY DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM TO ENHANCE STAKEHOLDERS PARTICIPATION IN WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT GIORDANO R., PASSARELLA G., URICCHIO V.F. R. Giordano 1,2 , G. Passarella 1 , V.F. Uricchio 1 1 Water Research Institute I.R.S.A., Italian National Research Council C.N.R., Bari, 2 Polytechnical University of Bari Convegno internazionale organizzato da EGU, the European Geosciences Union 1st EGU General Assembly Nizza FRA 25 30 Aprile 2004 Internazionale Contributo The Integrated Water Management IWM stresses the interrelationships among different types of management actions at different levels of influence, coordinating the stakeholders behaviour. Consequently, the stakeholders involvement in any decision making process is a key point in the IWM. Such a managerial approach, based on the stakeholders participation, recognizes the inherent systemic complexity of the environmental management and the importance of mutual learning, conflict management, and iterative and adaptive decision making processes as means for dealing with such a complexity. A successful watershed management process has to be participatory, allowing the stakeholders working together to set criteria for sustainable management, to identify priorities and constraints, to evaluate possible solutions, to recommend technologies and policies, and, finally, to monitor and evaluate any possible impact. These processes are often affected by conflicts of interest, which need to be solved through a joint negotiation among the involved stakeholders. For these reasons, any kind of support for handling a fair, rational and efficient debate and for achieving agreements and compromises is strongly desirable. In this contribution, an electronic agora system, capable to facilitate both the meeting among different stakeholders involved or interested in a water management decision and the negotiation process among them, is described. Obviously, involving different actors in any managerial process, means to respect their point of view of the considered problem. The proposed system is a reliable tool to assist individuals and groups in representing and communicating their own perspectives. Furthermore, the system can support in creating the, so called, communities of interests , which gather all the stakeholders having similar needs. In this research work, the definition of fuzzy semantic distance between the judgments expressed by each stakeholder is used as a clustering method. The resulting clusters are, then, used for a cooperative solution of the problem. The validation phase is made applying the system to a watershed in Apulia region, selecting different stakeholders with their management tasks and interests. A FUZZY DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM TO ENHANCE STAKEHOLDERS PARTICIPATION IN WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT Abstract presentato a Convegno internazionale organizzato da EGU, the European Geosciences Union INT_Abstract_Poster_03.pdf Abstract in atti di convegno Copernicus GmbH 1029 7006 Geophysical research abstracts Geophysical research abstracts Geophys. res. abstr. Geophysical research abstracts. giuseppe.passarella PASSARELLA GIUSEPPE vitofelice.uricchio URICCHIO VITO FELICE raffaele.giordano GIORDANO RAFFAELE TA.P04.005.008 Integrazione di metodologie per il monitoraggio e la modellizzazione per la gestione delle risorse idriche |
