TY - JOUR
T1 - Harmonised principles for public participation in quality assurance of integrated water resources modelling
AU - Henriksen, Hans Jørgen
AU - Refsgaard, Jens Christian
AU - Højberg, Anker Lajer
AU - Ferrand, Nils
AU - Gijsbers, Peter
AU - Scholten, Huub
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The present work was carried out within the project ‘Harmonizing Quality Assurance in model based catchments and river basin management (HarmoniQuA)’, which is partly funded by the EC Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development programme (Contract EVK1-CT2001-00097). The idea to write this paper came out of a meeting in Lisbon in August 2004 where Nils Ferrand, Cemagref (HarmoniCOP) and Pasky Pascual, US EPA, presented their views on participatory processes and how they might be implemented in HarmoniQuA’s modelling knowledge base and MoST. Also thanks to Erik Mostert, TU Delft for support to clarification of participation terminology, and the valuable feedbacks from two anonymous reviewers.
PY - 2009/9
Y1 - 2009/9
N2 - The main purpose of public participation in integrated water resources modelling is to improve decision-making by ensuring that decisions are soundly based on shared knowledge, experience and scientific evidence. The present paper describes stakeholder involvement in the modelling process. The point of departure is the guidelines for quality assurance for 'scientific' water resources modelling developed under the EU research project HarmoniQuA, which has developed a computer based Modelling Support Tool (MoST) to provide a user-friendly guidance and a quality assurance framework that aim for enhancing the credibility of river basin modelling. MoST prescribes interaction, which is a form of participation above consultation but below engagement of stakeholders and the public in the early phases of the modelling cycle and under review tasks throughout the process. MoST is a flexible tool which supports different types of users and facilitates interaction between modeller, manager and stakeholders. The perspective of using MoST for engagement of stakeholders e.g. higher level participation throughout the modelling process as part of integrated water resource management is evaluated.
AB - The main purpose of public participation in integrated water resources modelling is to improve decision-making by ensuring that decisions are soundly based on shared knowledge, experience and scientific evidence. The present paper describes stakeholder involvement in the modelling process. The point of departure is the guidelines for quality assurance for 'scientific' water resources modelling developed under the EU research project HarmoniQuA, which has developed a computer based Modelling Support Tool (MoST) to provide a user-friendly guidance and a quality assurance framework that aim for enhancing the credibility of river basin modelling. MoST prescribes interaction, which is a form of participation above consultation but below engagement of stakeholders and the public in the early phases of the modelling cycle and under review tasks throughout the process. MoST is a flexible tool which supports different types of users and facilitates interaction between modeller, manager and stakeholders. The perspective of using MoST for engagement of stakeholders e.g. higher level participation throughout the modelling process as part of integrated water resource management is evaluated.
KW - Engagement
KW - HarmoniQuA
KW - Interaction
KW - MoST
KW - Public participation
KW - Quality assurance
KW - Water resource modelling
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U2 - 10.1007/s11269-008-9395-9
DO - 10.1007/s11269-008-9395-9
M3 - Article
SN - 0920-4741
VL - 23
SP - 2539
EP - 2554
JO - Water Resources Management
JF - Water Resources Management
IS - 12
ER -