Mediated Modeling [[electronic resource] ] : A System Dynamics Approach to Environmental Consensus Building

• Autore: Van den Belt Marjan
• Pubblicazione: Washington, : Island Press, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (363 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.7/00684
• Soggetto topico: Environmental management -- Decision making; Environmental sciences -- Simulation methods
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: DietzThomas
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Ch. 1: Introduction""; ""Bounded Rationality""; ""Decision Making""; ""Knowledge Accumulation by Experts""; ""Stakeholder Participation""; ""Adaptive Management""; ""Building Environmental Consensus""; ""The Role of Mediated Modeling""; ""Conclusion""; ""Ch. 2: The Role of Mediated Modeling""; ""Participatory Modeling""; ""Mediated Modeling""; ""Intellectual Roots of Mediated Modeling""; ""Decision Support Tools""; ""Decision-Making Tools""; ""Deliberation Tools"" ; ""Mediated Modeling as a Starting Point""""Conclusion""; ""Ch. 3: The Mediated Modeling Process""; ""Why Should a Mediated Modeling Project Be Undertaken?""; ""Outline of a Mediated Modeling Process""; ""Adaptive and Collaborative Management""; ""Participants and Roles""; ""The Mediated Modeler""; ""Time Frame""; ""What Results Are to Be Expected?""; ""Conclusion""; ""Ch. 4: Conducting a Mediated Modeling Process""; ""Step 1: Preparation""; ""Step 2: Workshops""; ""Step 3: Follow-up and Tutorial""; ""Project Length""; ""Conclusion""; ""Ch. 5: Decision Support for Watershed Management"" ; ""Stakeholders""""The Upper Fox Modeling Process""; ""Practicing Model Presentation""; ""Follow-up Survey""; ""What Has Happened Since 1988 in the Upper Fox GMU?""; ""Discussion Questions""; ""Ch. 6: Using Mediated Modeling to Facilitate Collaborative Learning""; ""Socioenvironmental Complexity in the San Antonio River Basin""; ""Collaborative Learning""; ""Modeling Approaches""; ""Mediated Modeling as a Learned Tool""; ""Lessons Learned""; ""Discussion Questions""; ""Ch. 7: Future Planning: Banff National Park""; ""Banff National Park""; ""The Banff-Bow Valley Study"" ; ""The Modeling Process""""The Resulting Model""; ""Results""; ""Conclusion""; ""Discussion Questions""; ""Ch. 8: Sage Grouse Populations in Southeastern Idaho""; ""Modeling Process""; ""The Resulting Model""; ""Conclusion""; ""Discussion Questions""; ""Ch. 9: Decision Support in Coastal Zone Management""; ""The Key Issues""; ""How the Mediated Modeling Process in the Ria Formosa Got Started""; ""The Ria Formosa Modeling Process""; ""Recommendations""; ""Discussion Questions""; ""Ch. 10: Lessons Learned""; ""Strengths and Weaknesses of the Mediated Modeling Process"" ; ""How Does Mediated Modeling Help to Resolve Conflicts?""""The Down Side of Mediated Modeling""; ""Improvements to the Mediated Modeling Process""; ""Contributions of Mediated Modeling""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix 1: Comparison of the Case Studies""; ""Appendix 2: Contact Information, System Dynamics Modeling Software""; ""Appendix 3: Ranked Participant Statements from the Upper Fox ""After"" Questionnaire""; ""Appendix 4: Full Answers to the Upper Fox ""After"" Survey""; ""Appendix 5: Participant Rating of Upper Fox Model Parameters"" ; ""Appendix 6: The Ria Formosa Model: Structure and Equations""
• Titolo autorizzato: Mediated Modeling
• ISBN: 1-59726-900-X; 1-4237-6554-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451885603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II