The Politics of Participation in Watershed Modeling
The Politics of Participation in Watershed Modeling
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参与流域建模的政治
DOI：
10.1007/s002670010141
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
K. Korfmacher
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作者：
K. Korfmacher
虽然研究人员和决策者日益认识到公众参与环境决策的重要性，但在如何让公众参与的问题上却没有达成一致意见。最有争议的问题之一是如何让公民参与科学信息的制作。虽然这个问题与环境政策的许多领域有关，但它在流域管理中已成为突出问题。公众越来越多地参与到复杂的计算机建模工作中来，这些工作已经被开发出来，以告知流域管理决策。这些模型通常被视为政策过程的技术投入。然而，模型构建本身涉及许多与公众相关的假设，判断和决策。本文探讨了公众参与流域建模工作的政治，并提出了五个指导方针，为这种努力的良好实践。使用这些准则，我分析了四种情况下，不同的方法，公众参与建模过程中已被尝试，并提出建议，为今后的努力，让社区参与流域建模。
While researchers and decision-makers increasingly recognize the importance of public participation in environmental decision-making, there is less agreement about how to involve the public. One of the most controversial issues is how to involve citizens in producing scientific information. Although this question is relevant to many areas of environmental policy, it has come to the fore in watershed management. Increasingly, the public is becoming involved in the sophisticated computer modeling efforts that have been developed to inform watershed management decisions. These models typically have been treated as technical inputs to the policy process. However, model-building itself involves numerous assumptions, judgments, and decisions that are relevant to the public. This paper examines the politics of public involvement in watershed modeling efforts and proposes five guidelines for good practice for such efforts. Using these guidelines, I analyze four cases in which different approaches to public involvement in the modeling process have been attempted and make recommendations for future efforts to involve communities in watershed modeling.