Satisfy people's thirst for information: SIWI experience in training water journalists.

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Kerry Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Water Conflicts ◽  
Transboundary Cooperation ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Technical Solutions ◽  
Water Problems ◽  
Sensitive Issues

Abstract This chapter focuses more on experiences of communication and reporting on water conflicts and cooperation; it offers insights on covering sensitive issues, going beyond national interest, and how journalists can address key issues, in a way that informs constructive policies and boosts transboundary cooperation. Journalists must understand that while many water problems have technical solutions they don't exist in a political vacuum and the decision-making processes over major shared water resources like the Nile include numerous ministries or agencies with differing views, mandates, and interests, often in competition with each other.

scholarly journals Application of the watershed sustainability index in the Piranhas-Açu watershed

Water Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 622-640
Author(s):  
D. D. Costa e Silva ◽  
H. M. L. Chaves ◽  
W. F. Curi ◽  
J. G. V. Baracuhy ◽  
T. P. S. Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sustainability Index ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Semi Arid Region ◽  
Brazilian Northeast

Abstract The current worldwide water resources issue is one of the crucial matters to overcome obstacles to sustainable development. This problem, formerly tackled in a sectored manner, is now pointing towards an analysis directed to treating the watershed as a management unit, with regards to all dimensions of knowledge and, especially, to the public participation in the decision-making processes. As an alternative to measure its performance, it has been sought out to develop indexes aimed to measure its sustainability, but there is still a lack of the use of composed efficient methodologies that also enable public participation in decision-making. This research presents a methodology comprising 15 indexes for the calculation of the Watershed Sustainability Index (WSI), followed by the application of the PROMETHEE multi-criteria analysis method and the COPELAND multi-decision-maker method. The methodology was applied to evaluate the performance of subwatersheds of the Piranhas-Açu watershed, located in the Brazilian northeast semi-arid region. The performance ordering, obtained through the application of the methods, emphasizes that subwatersheds' performances are uneven. It can be noticed that the subwatersheds' performances are still far from ideal in relation to water resources management, even in the ones that displayed satisfactory index levels.

scholarly journals Hierarchical Decision-Making Problems – Modeling and Solutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-324
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Krupa ◽  
Teresa Ostrowska
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
The State ◽  
Hierarchical Decision Making ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Hierarchical Decision ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Key Issues

Abstract Article illustrates the state of the work conducted at the Faculty of Management Warsaw University of Technology on the issue of modeling hierarchical decision-making problems in the context of administrative and infrastructural conditions of the various forms of public safety. The aim is to develop a universal methodology of conduct for the management needs of the public administration, whose powers are focused on maintaining the continuity of the critical infrastructure of the State. The key issues covered by the article are: modeling of hierarchical issues and decision-making processes in the multi-layered organizational structures; harmonization of scales significance of decisionmaking areas with significance weights of elementary decisions in these decision areas; and a priori contradictions of elementary decisions from different decision areas and value assessments of taken problem decisions.

scholarly journals Improving water governance in New Zealand: stakeholder views of catchment management processes and plans

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Fenemor ◽  
Diarmuid Neilan ◽  
Will Allen ◽  
Shona Russell
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
Catchment Management ◽  
Stakeholder Views ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Water governance refers to the institutions, legislation and decision-making processes applied to develop and manage water resources. As pressures on water resources increase there has been a realisation that technocratically-driven water management has not achieved desired sustainability outcomes. Attention must be focused not only on better scientific understanding of water and its values and uses, but also on what constitutes good water governance.

scholarly journals Uwarunkowania i kierunki zmian w procesach decydowania publicznego na szczeblu samorządowym w związku z pandemią koronawirusa

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-94
Author(s):  
Kamil Mroczka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Technical Solutions

In recent months, the COVID-19 virus has become a key challenge for all countries, regardless of their geographical location, economic situation or system of government. As stated by Grzegorz Rydlewski, the crisis has become a condition for balancing and targeting the activities of supranational structures, states, various intermediate structures, and individual people (Rydlewski, 2020). The main aim of the present article is to discuss the trends and changes to public decision-making processes introduced by the lawmaker in connection with the epidemic threat to local government administration. Unquestionably, one of the negative effects of the pandemic is the fact that holding meetings of local government bodies in physical form has been unsafe since the outbreak. Legal and technical solutions have been introduced which partly transfer the decision-making process to the digital world by allowing remote meetings for a wide range of statutory bodies. In this context, it is important to examine the usefulness, practicality and efficiency of the solutions adopted, and also to identify key obstacles and challenges to local government decision-making processes. Additionally, examples of ICT tools supporting decision making in local government units will be duly provided. Finally, key problems identified in the course of the analysis in question, e.g., issues related to the area of cyber security, will be also highlighted.

Building Capacity for Better Water Decision Making through Internet-Based Decision Support Systems

2010 ◽  
pp. 54-80
Author(s):  
Kazimierz A. Salewicz ◽  
Mikiyasu Nakayama ◽  
Carl Bruch
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Water Resources Systems ◽  
Comprehensive Information ◽  
Operational Policies ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
Access To Knowledge

Decision making processes for developing water resources systems infrastructure and operational policies have ceased to be the exclusive domain of just a few, privileged persons making decisions. Now, more and more groups of the society at both the international and national levels are demanding opportunities to participate in decision making, as well as information about potential consequences of policy decisions. In some countries, public participation in the decision making process has been already sanctioned by law, for example through Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), public permitting processes, and notice and comment rulemaking procedures. However, in many developing countries, public participation remains unfulfilled despite growing awareness and pressure exercised by various interest groups. To be effective, public participation – either active or passive (through access to knowledge and information concerning the decisions and their impact) – needs appropriate political and legal regulations, in addition to technical means to disseminate objective, complete, and comprehensive information about nature of the decisions to be made, potential alternatives, feasibility of solutions, impact of the potential decisions, etc. Among plethora of the available methods and means for providing the information to the broad circles of the society, the Internet already plays a special and powerful role. This chapter presents the concepts and notions underlying formal approaches to decision making processes, as well as providing a review of the possibilities offered by the Internet to enable access to various sources and types of information that can directly or indirectly support the decision making processes in complex water resources systems.

scholarly journals Articulation, service use, managing and coping: understanding the needs of older people and carers living with dementia

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Josephine Tetley ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Care Services ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Practical Support ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Impact

Background: There is increasing recognition of the need to involve people living with dementia in research that can impact on service developments in the field. Despite this, people with dementia are still under-represented and proxy/carer views have dominated discourses of care. For nursing, understanding the views and experiences of people living with dementia is particularly important for the development of effective person-centred practices. Aim and objectives: The aims of the research were to identify: The conditions that enable people living with dementia to participate effectively in decision making about the use and uptake of services The factors that affect access, uptake and use of care services for people living with dementia and their supporters Methods: A participatory and constructivist methodology guided the study; consistent with this, a mixed qualitative method approach was used to gather data. Participatory observation was used to identify key issues and key participants (four people living with dementia and four carers), who were then interviewed. The interview data were analysed using the constructivist data analysis processes of unitising and categorising. Findings: Three main themes were identified from the interview data; barriers to articulation of experiences; finding help and support; and managing and coping. The impact of these issues on the choice and decision-making processes of people living with dementia and their carers emerged in a range of ways and are presented here. Conclusions and implications for practice: Researchers and practitioners need to develop skills in engaging with conversations that may seem disjointed or to drift on to different topics The role of carers in interviews raises challenges, but ultimately researchers and practitioners need to balance and blend the views of carers while prioritising the voices of people living with dementia To be effective, services for people living with dementia and their carers, need to provide emotional and practical support

scholarly journals A Serious Board Game to Analyze Socio-Ecological Dynamics towards Collaboration in Agriculture

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5301
Author(s):  
María Elena Orduña Alegría ◽  
Niels Schütze ◽  
Samuel C. Zipper
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Irrigated Agriculture ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Education Tool

Climate change exacerbates water scarcity and associated conflicts over water resources. To address said conflicts and achieve sustainable use of water resources in agriculture, further development of socio-ecological adaptations are required. In this study, we evaluate the ability of MAHIZ, a serious board game, to analyze socio-hydrological dynamics related to irrigated agriculture. Gameplay involves the player’s decision-making with associated impacts on water resources and crop productivity in diverse climate and policy scenarios. We evaluated MAHIZ as (1) an innovative science communication and sustainability education approach, and (2) a data collection method to inform socio-hydrological theory and models. Analysis of 35 recorded game sessions demonstrated that MAHIZ is an effective education tool about the tragedy of commons in agrohydrology and was able to identify important decision-making processes and associations between critical social parameters (e.g., communication, trust, competence) and the evolution of collective action. MAHIZ has an open game design, so the approach can be adapted for both scientific insight and outreach.

scholarly journals Processing and decisions relating to water resources data: The case of Morocco

2021 ◽  
Vol 119 ◽  
pp. 03007
Author(s):  
Jamil Hicham ◽  
Jamal Elhassan ◽  
El Mansouri Bouabid ◽  
Moumen Aniss ◽  
Chao Jamal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Business Managers ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Big Data Technologies ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Water Strategy ◽  
National Water

The national water strategy has been an essential vector of government strategy for a long time. The management of water resources is an integral part of the economic development of Morocco. Nevertheless, the definition of the strategic axes of this component and the adequate decision-making depends directly on the collection and use of all the data relating to water resources. If big data technologies present a suitable solution to ensure optimal and rapid use of its data, the success of functional and technical designs can only be provided after total control of the processing and decision-making processes relating to the water domain. In this paper, we will try to identify the aspects relating to the processes of data collection, processing, consolidation, and decision-making through the use of the results of field surveys and interviews with business managers.

scholarly journals Covid-19: A Different Economic Crisis but the Same Paradigm of Democratic Deficit in the EU

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-264
Author(s):  
Dina Sebastião
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Democratic Deficit ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Ideological Debate ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Eu

Based on a normative orientation and an interdisciplinary perspective, this is a comparative study, using the process tracing methodology, between the EU responses to Eurozone and Covid-19 crises to assess if, despite different outcomes, institutional decision-making processes evidence a change. The study concluded that the EU democratic deficit remains, which assumes special features in economic crises, providing a political oversize power to the economically hegemonic states, thus constraining ideological debate and making national interest prevail over politicisation. This perpetuates the conversion of structural economic positions into political power at the expense of political representative power and democracy.

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