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Bridging The Gaps Between Design And Use: Developing Appropriate Tools For Environmental Management And Policy, Brian Mcintosh, Alexey Voinov, Court Smith, Carlo Giupponi
Bridging The Gaps Between Design And Use: Developing Appropriate Tools For Environmental Management And Policy, Brian Mcintosh, Alexey Voinov, Court Smith, Carlo Giupponi
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Integrated assessment models, decision support systems (DSS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are examples of a growing number of computer-based tools designed to provide scientific decision and information support to people within environmental management and policy organizations. It is recognized that end-user organizations are often not as receptive to using such tools as desired but that little research has been done to uncover and understand the reasons why. As part of the process to understand what tools are used and why, and conversely what tools are not used and why, this paper presents some views on the issues involved. No …
Bottom-Up, Decision Support System Development : A Wetland Salinity Management Application In California's San Joaquin Valley, N. W. T. Quinn
Bottom-Up, Decision Support System Development : A Wetland Salinity Management Application In California's San Joaquin Valley, N. W. T. Quinn
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Seasonally managed wetlands in the Grasslands Basin of California’s San Joaquin Valley provide food and shelter for migratory wildfowl during winter months and sport for waterfowl hunters during the annual duck season. Surface water supply to these wetland contain salt which, when drained to the San Joaquin River during the annual drawdown period, negatively impacts downstream agricultural riparian water diverters. Recent environmental regulation, limiting discharges salinity to the San Joaquin River and primarily targeting agricultural non-point sources, now addresses return flows from seasonally managed wetlands. Real-time water quality management has been advocated as a means of matching wetland return flows …
Decision Support For Nitrogen Management In Tile-Drained Agriculture, P. Heilman, R. W. Malone, L. Mac, Jerry L. Hatfield, L.R. Ahuja, J. Ayen, K. Boyle, R. Kanwar
Decision Support For Nitrogen Management In Tile-Drained Agriculture, P. Heilman, R. W. Malone, L. Mac, Jerry L. Hatfield, L.R. Ahuja, J. Ayen, K. Boyle, R. Kanwar
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Farmers will adopt alternative management systems to improve water quality more readily if they understand how those management alternatives affect the release of contaminants, crop yields, and ultimately, their net income. We propose a method to address these issues by integrating observed data from field experiments, a comprehensive simulation model, review by local experts, and application through a decision support system by technically trained conservationists. An example for reducing nitrogen loading from tile-drained corn and soybean production in Iowa demonstrates the approach. Fourteen years of observed data from 30 research plots on the Northeast Research and Demonstration Farm near Nashua, …
Integrating 3d Hydrodynamic Transport And Ecological Plant Models Of The Savannah River Estuary Using Artificial Neural Network Models, Edwin Roehl, Ruby Daamen, Paul A. Conrads, Wiley Kitchens
Integrating 3d Hydrodynamic Transport And Ecological Plant Models Of The Savannah River Estuary Using Artificial Neural Network Models, Edwin Roehl, Ruby Daamen, Paul A. Conrads, Wiley Kitchens
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
The Savannah Harbor is one of the busiest ports on the East Coast of the USA and is located just downstream of the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge (SNWR), which is one of the nation’s largest freshwater tidal marshes. The Lower Savannah River estuary has been studied for years by governmental agencies, water users, universities, and consultants having an interest in controlling water quality and predicting the potential impacts of a proposed harbor deepening. Consequently, many different databases have been created that describe the natural system’s complexity and behaviors. Variables having particular relevance include those describing bathymetry, meteorology, water level, and …
Supporting Environmental And Energy Decisions Through An Open Software Structure, Giorgio Guariso, Matteo Baracani
Supporting Environmental And Energy Decisions Through An Open Software Structure, Giorgio Guariso, Matteo Baracani
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Public participation to environmental planning and management decisions, as suggested by localAgenda 21 processes, can be supported by software tools developed with a cyclic interaction with all thestakeholders and simple enough to be quickly operated by a large set of heterogeneous users. This also helpspreventing their rapid aging and their excessive dependence on changing technologies. We experimented thedevelopment of such software tools using an Office type environment to store data, analyse, andgeographically represent the effects of alternative decisions and html files to help utilizing the software anddistributing the information over the Internet. Two different applications are reported in the paper. …
Web-Based Open Source Gis Decision Support Tools: Explaining The Software Stack, Aaron Racicot
Web-Based Open Source Gis Decision Support Tools: Explaining The Software Stack, Aaron Racicot
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
As the analytical processing capabilities of software systems grow, so do the expectations of end users of those software systems. An ever increasing trend has emerged in the software domain to provide more functionality over the World Wide Web through web services. Web-based decision support tools are emerging as a viable solution to fulfill environmental management decision support needs, while addressing the desire for platform independent web-based interfaces. Managers of environmental systems are often held hostage to the lack of information about the very system they manage. While modeling techniques and capabilities continue to grow, the need for real-time decision …
Features Of Advanced Decision Support Systems For Environmental Studies, Management, And Regulation, Edwin Roehl, Ruby Daamen, Paul A. Conrads
Features Of Advanced Decision Support Systems For Environmental Studies, Management, And Regulation, Edwin Roehl, Ruby Daamen, Paul A. Conrads
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Natural resource managers and users face difficult challenges when managing the interactions between natural and man-made systems. Even though the collective interests and computer skills of the community of managers, scientists, and other stakeholders are quite varied, there is an overarching need for equal access by all to the scientific knowledge needed to make the best possible decisions. A decision support system (DSS) can meet this need. DSS have been described as, “computer-based systems (for) helping decision-makers to solve various semi structured and unstructured problems involving multiple attributes, objectives, and goals… Historically, the majority of DSSs have been either computer …
Challenges Encountered During Integrated Modelling Across Multiple Catchments, Neville D. Crossman, Brett A. Bryan
Challenges Encountered During Integrated Modelling Across Multiple Catchments, Neville D. Crossman, Brett A. Bryan
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
There has been a recent trend in natural resource management decision making toward target setting and the use of models to identify geographic priorities to meet those targets. However, measurable and quantitative targets for assessing progress toward achieving management and policy goals tend not to be established. This may be due in large part to a lack of clarity in data and model availability, and geographic prioritisation processes. The long history of extensive human activity and modification of natural resources in the Murray Darling Basin of southern Australia has led to a myriad of natural resource management problems, particularly dryland …
Bridging The Design-Use Gap For Dss In Environmental Policy And Practice., K. B. Matthews, M. G. Hutchins, G. Hill
Bridging The Design-Use Gap For Dss In Environmental Policy And Practice., K. B. Matthews, M. G. Hutchins, G. Hill
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Drawing on the literature of agricultural decision support systems (DSS) and experience in developing tools for policy support and evaluation, this paper argues that while in the main such tools have failed to live up to expectations it may be that the expectations were unrealistic. The design-use gap of DSS for environmental management is partially the inevitable cycle of expectations (unbelief-euphoria-disappointment and maturity or abandonment) experienced by any innovation. The environmental problems facing land managers and society are dauntingly complex. Yet more or better quality information does not inevitably lead to better management. Many of the issues that face land-use …
Bridging The Gaps Between Design And Use: Developing Appropriate Tools For Environmental Management And Policy, Brian Mcintosh, Alexey Voinov, Court Smith, Carlo Giupponi
Bridging The Gaps Between Design And Use: Developing Appropriate Tools For Environmental Management And Policy, Brian Mcintosh, Alexey Voinov, Court Smith, Carlo Giupponi
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Integrated assessment models, decision support systems (DSS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are examples of a growing number of computer-based tools designed to provide scientific decision and information support to people within environmental management and policy organizations. It is recognized that end-user organizations are often not as receptive to using such tools as desired but that little research has been done to uncover and understand the reasons why. As part of the process to understand what tools are used and why, and conversely what tools are not used and why, this paper presents some views on the issues involved. No …
Decision Support For Nitrogen Management In Tile-Drained Agriculture, P. Heilman, R. W. Malone, L. Mac, Jerry L. Hatfield, L.R. Ahuja, J. Ayen, K. Boyle, R. Kanwar
Decision Support For Nitrogen Management In Tile-Drained Agriculture, P. Heilman, R. W. Malone, L. Mac, Jerry L. Hatfield, L.R. Ahuja, J. Ayen, K. Boyle, R. Kanwar
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Farmers will adopt alternative management systems to improve water quality more readily if they understand how those management alternatives affect the release of contaminants, crop yields, and ultimately, their net income. We propose a method to address these issues by integrating observed data from field experiments, a comprehensive simulation model, review by local experts, and application through a decision support system by technically trained conservationists. An example for reducing nitrogen loading from tile-drained corn and soybean production in Iowa demonstrates the approach. Fourteen years of observed data from 30 research plots on the Northeast Research and Demonstration Farm near Nashua, …
Bottom-Up, Decision Support System Development : A Wetland Salinity Management Application In California's San Joaquin Valley, N. W. T. Quinn
Bottom-Up, Decision Support System Development : A Wetland Salinity Management Application In California's San Joaquin Valley, N. W. T. Quinn
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Seasonally managed wetlands in the Grasslands Basin of California’s San Joaquin Valley provide food and shelter for migratory wildfowl during winter months and sport for waterfowl hunters during the annual duck season. Surface water supply to these wetland contain salt which, when drained to the San Joaquin River during the annual drawdown period, negatively impacts downstream agricultural riparian water diverters. Recent environmental regulation, limiting discharges salinity to the San Joaquin River and primarily targeting agricultural non-point sources, now addresses return flows from seasonally managed wetlands. Real-time water quality management has been advocated as a means of matching wetland return flows …
Integrating 3d Hydrodynamic Transport And Ecological Plant Models Of The Savannah River Estuary Using Artificial Neural Network Models, Edwin Roehl, Ruby Daamen, Paul A. Conrads, Wiley Kitchens
Integrating 3d Hydrodynamic Transport And Ecological Plant Models Of The Savannah River Estuary Using Artificial Neural Network Models, Edwin Roehl, Ruby Daamen, Paul A. Conrads, Wiley Kitchens
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
The Savannah Harbor is one of the busiest ports on the East Coast of the USA and is located just downstream of the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge (SNWR), which is one of the nation’s largest freshwater tidal marshes. The Lower Savannah River estuary has been studied for years by governmental agencies, water users, universities, and consultants having an interest in controlling water quality and predicting the potential impacts of a proposed harbor deepening. Consequently, many different databases have been created that describe the natural system’s complexity and behaviors. Variables having particular relevance include those describing bathymetry, meteorology, water level, and …
Supporting Environmental And Energy Decisions Through An Open Software Structure, Giorgio Guariso, Matteo Baracani
Supporting Environmental And Energy Decisions Through An Open Software Structure, Giorgio Guariso, Matteo Baracani
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Public participation to environmental planning and management decisions, as suggested by localAgenda 21 processes, can be supported by software tools developed with a cyclic interaction with all thestakeholders and simple enough to be quickly operated by a large set of heterogeneous users. This also helpspreventing their rapid aging and their excessive dependence on changing technologies. We experimented thedevelopment of such software tools using an Office type environment to store data, analyse, andgeographically represent the effects of alternative decisions and html files to help utilizing the software anddistributing the information over the Internet. Two different applications are reported in the paper. …
Web-Based Open Source Gis Decision Support Tools: Explaining The Software Stack, Aaron Racicot
Web-Based Open Source Gis Decision Support Tools: Explaining The Software Stack, Aaron Racicot
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
As the analytical processing capabilities of software systems grow, so do the expectations of end users of those software systems. An ever increasing trend has emerged in the software domain to provide more functionality over the World Wide Web through web services. Web-based decision support tools are emerging as a viable solution to fulfill environmental management decision support needs, while addressing the desire for platform independent web-based interfaces. Managers of environmental systems are often held hostage to the lack of information about the very system they manage. While modeling techniques and capabilities continue to grow, the need for real-time decision …
Features Of Advanced Decision Support Systems For Environmental Studies, Management, And Regulation, Edwin Roehl, Ruby Daamen, Paul A. Conrads
Features Of Advanced Decision Support Systems For Environmental Studies, Management, And Regulation, Edwin Roehl, Ruby Daamen, Paul A. Conrads
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Natural resource managers and users face difficult challenges when managing the interactions between natural and man-made systems. Even though the collective interests and computer skills of the community of managers, scientists, and other stakeholders are quite varied, there is an overarching need for equal access by all to the scientific knowledge needed to make the best possible decisions. A decision support system (DSS) can meet this need. DSS have been described as, “computer-based systems (for) helping decision-makers to solve various semi structured and unstructured problems involving multiple attributes, objectives, and goals… Historically, the majority of DSSs have been either computer …
Challenges Encountered During Integrated Modelling Across Multiple Catchments, Neville D. Crossman, Brett A. Bryan
Challenges Encountered During Integrated Modelling Across Multiple Catchments, Neville D. Crossman, Brett A. Bryan
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
There has been a recent trend in natural resource management decision making toward target setting and the use of models to identify geographic priorities to meet those targets. However, measurable and quantitative targets for assessing progress toward achieving management and policy goals tend not to be established. This may be due in large part to a lack of clarity in data and model availability, and geographic prioritisation processes. The long history of extensive human activity and modification of natural resources in the Murray Darling Basin of southern Australia has led to a myriad of natural resource management problems, particularly dryland …
Bridging The Design-Use Gap For Dss In Environmental Policy And Practice., K. B. Matthews, M. G. Hutchins, G. Hill
Bridging The Design-Use Gap For Dss In Environmental Policy And Practice., K. B. Matthews, M. G. Hutchins, G. Hill
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Drawing on the literature of agricultural decision support systems (DSS) and experience in developing tools for policy support and evaluation, this paper argues that while in the main such tools have failed to live up to expectations it may be that the expectations were unrealistic. The design-use gap of DSS for environmental management is partially the inevitable cycle of expectations (unbelief-euphoria-disappointment and maturity or abandonment) experienced by any innovation. The environmental problems facing land managers and society are dauntingly complex. Yet more or better quality information does not inevitably lead to better management. Many of the issues that face land-use …