TY - JOUR
T1 - Records of engagement and decision making for environmental and socio-ecological challenges
AU - Cockerill, Kristan
AU - Glynn, Pierre
AU - Chabay, Ilan
AU - Farooque, Mahmud
AU - Hämäläinen, Raimo P.
AU - Miyamoto, Ben
AU - McKay, Patricia
N1 - Funding Information:
Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the US Government. The authors thank Kimberly Quach and Leah Kaplan both with the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Arizona State University, for their assistance in coordinating the February 2019 meeting. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for their feedback as well as helpful reviews from Kim Dumont (William T. Grant Foundation), Chauncey Anderson (USGS) and Natalie Latysh (USGS). The manuscript is much stronger for their input.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, EURO - The Association of European Operational Research Societies and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2019/11/1
Y1 - 2019/11/1
N2 - We propose creating and maintaining records of engagement and decision-making (RoED) to help us and our communities better understand ourselves, our goals, our decisions, and the dynamic systems in which we all live. The purpose of RoED is to go well beyond noting that dialogue occurred or a decision was reached. The records should, in ways appropriate to the context and participants, document interactions and note biases, beliefs, emotions, behaviors, norms, and values. These crucial aspects are generally absent in academic papers and formal reports, yet they always play a role in decision-making processes. While not a panacea for addressing critical biophysical and social challenges, we propose that a comprehensive framework for promoting realistic, legitimate and inclusive engagement could enhance trust, establish institutional memory, and when and where appropriate, ensure greater transparency. The aim is to create and maintain RoED to collect significant information and share insights from multi-stakeholder decision-making processes from diverse institutions, contexts, and disciplinary domains. In the long-term RoED could promote more effective adaptive management or governance approaches. This paper describes an exploratory phase intended to catalyze collaborative efforts worldwide.
AB - We propose creating and maintaining records of engagement and decision-making (RoED) to help us and our communities better understand ourselves, our goals, our decisions, and the dynamic systems in which we all live. The purpose of RoED is to go well beyond noting that dialogue occurred or a decision was reached. The records should, in ways appropriate to the context and participants, document interactions and note biases, beliefs, emotions, behaviors, norms, and values. These crucial aspects are generally absent in academic papers and formal reports, yet they always play a role in decision-making processes. While not a panacea for addressing critical biophysical and social challenges, we propose that a comprehensive framework for promoting realistic, legitimate and inclusive engagement could enhance trust, establish institutional memory, and when and where appropriate, ensure greater transparency. The aim is to create and maintain RoED to collect significant information and share insights from multi-stakeholder decision-making processes from diverse institutions, contexts, and disciplinary domains. In the long-term RoED could promote more effective adaptive management or governance approaches. This paper describes an exploratory phase intended to catalyze collaborative efforts worldwide.
KW - Adaptive governance
KW - Adaptive management
KW - Behavioural operational research
KW - Decision-making
KW - Engagement
KW - Knowledge brokers
KW - Socio-ecological systems
KW - Systems intelligence
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U2 - 10.1007/s40070-019-00104-6
DO - 10.1007/s40070-019-00104-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85076119540
SN - 2193-9438
VL - 7
SP - 243
EP - 265
JO - EURO Journal on Decision Processes
JF - EURO Journal on Decision Processes
IS - 3-4
ER -