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decision
support:
challenges
Emerging
Principles
Emerging
Needs
Emerging
Principles
Resource management challenges
arise from complex natural systems, inadequate data, changing public values,
and a need for integration across multiple resources and knowledge areas. On
one hand, problems are multi-faceted due to differences in stakeholders' views
on facts (things that are regarded to be true) and values (things that are
regarded as desirable). On the other hand, solutions need to be
consensus-based, affordable, equitable, implementable, and sustainable. These
challenges cannot be met by traditional approaches, which produce solutions
using a single resource perspective.
A new and more effective approach to resource management has emerged. This new
approach is based on three powerful principles:
- Integration – conduct
analysis from a multi-resource and multi-disciplinary viewpoint
- Collaboration – employ a
participatory process that includes all affected interests
- Resource Stewardship –
address resource management challenges by taking responsible and
responsive actions.
Emerging
Needs
To put the three emerging
principles of resources management into practice, resource managers need:
- A systematic process to
identify, evaluate, and solve computational, legal, cultural, and
political problems arising from stakeholders' viewpoints on facts and
values (see figure below)
- An information system that
can integrate diverse data sets and different analytical tools and models
- A tool that can transform
data (all facts) into information (useful facts) and then into knowledge
(system responses), which will ultimately lead to a decision, that all
parties can understand
- A simple graphical user
interface for data visualization and rapid evaluation of resource
management strategies
- A framework to improve the
transparency and tracability of the analyses and monitor the results of
past actions.
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Classification
of resource management problems based on stakeholders'
agreement/disagreement on facts and values.
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