ORCID Profile
0000-0001-8804-7003
Current Organisation
US Geological Survey
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2018
DOI: 10.1002/2018EF000819
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
Publisher: Wageningen University and Research
Date: 18-05-2023
DOI: 10.18174/SESMO.18509
Abstract: Stakeholder participation in social-ecological systems (SES) modeling is increasingly considered a desirable way to elicit erse sources of knowledge about SES behavior and to promote inclusive decision-making in SES. Understanding how participatory modeling processes function in the context of long-term adaptive management of SES may allow for better design of participatory processes to achieve the intended outcomes of inclusionary knowledge, representativeness, and social learning, while avoiding unintended outcomes. Long-term adaptive management contexts often include political influences -- attempts to shift or preserve power structures and authority, and efforts to represent the political and economic interests of stakeholders -- in the computer models that are used to shape policy making and implementation. In this research, we examine a period that included a major transition in the watershed model used for management of the Chesapeake Bay in the United States. The Chesapeake Bay watershed model has been in development since the 1980s, and is considered by many to be an exemplary case of participatory modeling. We use documentary analysis and interviews with participants involved in the model application and development transition to reveal a variety of ways in which participatory modeling may be subject to different kinds of political influences, some of which resulted in unintended outcomes, including: perceptions of difficulty updating the model in substantive ways, “gaming” of the model articipatory process by stakeholders, and increasing resistance against considering uncertainty in the system not captured by the model. This research suggests unintended or negative outcomes may be associated with both participatory decision-making and stakeholder learning even though they are so often touted as the benefits of participatory modeling. We end with a hypothesis that further development of a theory of computer model governance to bridge model impact and broader theories of environmental governance at the science-policy interface may result in improved SES modeling outcomes.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 30-10-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 04-2017
DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000487
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
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