Using Matching Methods to Link Social and Physical Analyses for Sustainability Planning
Using Matching Methods to Link Social and Physical Analyses for Sustainability Planning
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使用匹配方法将社会和物理分析联系起来以进行可持续发展规划
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2010
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M. Fischer
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E. Kemp;S. Bharwani;M. Fischer
可持续发展规划需要了解社会和物理系统及其相互作用。然而，社会科学的方法与自然科学的方法之间存在着不匹配。尽管有许多人尝试将自然科学的方法应用于社会科学，但结果通常并不令人满意。社会的关键特征，如制度和权力关系，以及个人的关键特征，如个人传播知识的丰富的符号系统，都不适合自然科学的标准分析方法。我们认为，与其将一门学科的方法转移到另一门学科，一个合适的目标可以是寻求在社会科学和自然科学之间的边界上工作的“匹配方法”。我们讨论了如何使用知识启发工具（knet）来开发匹配方法。通过将knets衍生的决策树与使用基于场景的水资源评估与规划（WEAP）软件构建的物理水资源分配模型相结合，提供了一个明确的示例。我们的结论是，通过一个相对薄弱的环节，社会和物理领域可以有效地结合起来，使用匹配方法进行综合规划，从而允许更全面的可持续资源规划方法。
Sustainability planning requires an understanding of social and physical systems and their interactions. However, there is a mismatch between the methods of the social sciences and those of the natural sciences. Although there have been numerous attempts to adapt the methods of the natural sciences for use in the social sciences, the results are usually unsatisfactory. Key features of societies such as institutions and power relationships, and of individuals such as the rich symbolic systems by which individuals transmit knowledge, do not lend themselves to the standard analytical methods of the natural sciences. We argue that rather than transfer the methods of one discipline to the other, an appropriate goal can be to seek "matching methods" that work at the boundary between the social and natural sciences. We discuss how knowledge elicitation tools (KnETs) can be used to develop matching methods. An explicit example is provided by combining a KnETs-derived decision tree with a physical water allocation model that was built using the scenario-based Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) software. We conclude that, through a relatively weak link, the social and physical domains can be effectively combined for integrated planning using matching methods, thereby permitting a more holistic approach to sustainable resource planning.