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

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

Kazimierz A. Salewicz, Mikiyasu Nakayama, Carl Bruch
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 27
ISBN13: 9781615209071|ISBN10: 1615209077|EISBN13: 9781615209088
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-907-1.ch004
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Salewicz, Kazimierz A., et al. "Building Capacity for Better Water Decision Making through Internet-Based Decision Support Systems." Handbook of Research on Hydroinformatics: Technologies, Theories and Applications, edited by Tagelsir Mohamed Gasmelseid, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 54-80. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-907-1.ch004

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Salewicz, K. A., Nakayama, M., & Bruch, C. (2011). Building Capacity for Better Water Decision Making through Internet-Based Decision Support Systems. In T. Gasmelseid (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Hydroinformatics: Technologies, Theories and Applications (pp. 54-80). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-907-1.ch004

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Salewicz, Kazimierz A., Mikiyasu Nakayama, and Carl Bruch. "Building Capacity for Better Water Decision Making through Internet-Based Decision Support Systems." In Handbook of Research on Hydroinformatics: Technologies, Theories and Applications, edited by Tagelsir Mohamed Gasmelseid, 54-80. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-907-1.ch004

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Abstract

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.

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