Framing Water Sustainability in an Environmental Decision Support System
Framing Water Sustainability in an Environmental Decision Support System
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在环境决策支持系统中构建水的可持续性
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2013
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D. White
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D. White
本案例研究应用框架和框架过程的理论概念来识别和描述通过环境决策支持系统表达的水可持续性的诊断和预测框架。本研究探讨了水的发展，水的供应和需求在亚利桑那州中部的计算机模拟模型。通过半结构化的个人和小组访谈，参与者的意见，和文件分析产生的定性数据。分析确定了一个诊断框架，将水可持续性问题定义为长期干旱、气候变化影响和人口增长造成的不确定和长期供水短缺。水可持续性的预测框架将解决方案确定为城市居民用水需求管理、农业用地的退休以及将农业用水转为市政用途以实现地下水的安全产量。研究结果进行了讨论的决策支持系统（DSS）的设计方面的影响。
This case study applies the theoretical concepts of frame and framing processes to identify and describe the diagnostic and prognostic frames for water sustainability expressed through an environmental decision support system. The research examines the development of WaterSim, a computer simulation model of water supply and demand in central Arizona. Qualitative data were generated through semistructured individual and group interviews, participant observations, and document analysis. The analysis identified a diagnostic frame defining the water sustainability problem as uncertain and long-term water supply shortage caused by prolonged drought, climate change impacts, and population growth. The prognostic frame for water sustainability defined the solutions to be urban residential water demand management, retirement of agricultural lands, and conversion of agricultural water to municipal uses to achieve safe yield of groundwater. The results of the study are discussed in terms of implications for decision support systems (DSS) design.