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Latest news about the tools available in Water Planning.
Outcomes from the first Australian Appreciative Inquiry forum
On 6 October 2010, 45 people gathered at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne for the very first Appreciative Inquiry Forum – Exploring Appreciative Inquiry in Australia. Inspired by the global AI conference in Nepal 2009, the organisers sought to bring together Australian practitioners to harness and build on an Australian AI community and network.
Evaluation of Bayesian Networks in Participatory Water Resources Management
This paper published in the journal Ecology and Society describes the development and the evaluation of a participatory decision support system based on Bayesian networks (BNs). It reports on research carried out under the NeWater project.
Community Water Planner Field Guide
The Community Water Planner Field Guide is a package to assist water managers, service providers and Indigenous organisations working with remote communities to plan and implement water management programs for settlements with small water supplies. It can be downloaded from the Water Quality Research Australia (WQRA) website.
National Program for Sustainable Irrigation: Scenario Planning Tool
The National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (or NPSI) has developed a series of planning tools fo scenario planning (foresighting and the production of future scenarios) and assessing environmental impacts (via ecological risk assessments). Both approaches are described briefly in a report published as part of their Harvest program. The report provides examples of their application, and subsequent sections report on how both techniques have been applied to help shed
light on the future of irrigation in northern and southern Australia.
The role of the stakeholder analysis within participatory water management
The latest edition of the journal Water Policy contains an article that looks at the way that stakeholder analysis contributes to the achievement of integrated water management. It presents a stakeholder analysis methodology that was implemented on a trial basis in Northern Italy.
Integrated assessment modelling advances in Netherlands
Integrated Assessment Modelling
Researchers at the renowned Wageningen University have published new data on environment and change that looks at the role of end users in the development of uncertainty analysis in integrated assessment modelling, using the SEAMLESS Integrated Framework as a case study.
Euromed Heritage workshop on cultural mapping
Euromed Heritage is conducting a training workshop in Nicosia, Cyprus on cultural mapping to support to civil society actors in the better management of
Mediterranean cultural heritage. The workshop will introduce participants to a range of cultural mapping methods and applications, from well‐established procedures to cutting‐edge practice, and open up discussion for participants to consider its usefulness as a tool, and how it might be incorporated into their current and future practice.
Is Appreciative Inquiry just the latest management fad?
An article on appreciative inquiry appears in the March 2010 edition of the British Journal of Healthcare Management. Author Robert S. P. Jones poses the question as to whether the purported benefits of this technique are merely anecdotal, or whether they would stand up to rigourous empricial investigation.
How to reach the hard to reach
According to recent research from the University of York in the United Kingdom, innovative participatory GIS techniques are able to assist in those segments of the community that are often regarded as "hard to reach".
Video: What is a planning charrette?
This short video (just under a minute and a half!) provides a great overview of the planning charrette process.
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