Models play a key role in understanding and managing socio-environmental issues. Successful models help integrate various sources of data, perspectives, and knowledge; facilitate stakeholder participation; and support decision making. Such success depends on the use of effective practices throughout the model development lifecycle starting from defining objectives through using the model to draw insights and recommendations. From an interdisciplinary research perspective, access to best modeling practices is often limited because these practices are often captured and evaluated from a single field or disciplinary viewpoint and in a vacuum from what stakeholders think and need. This synthesis project aims to identify and articulate core modeling practices into products and methods that are accessible and relevant to different disciplinary and stakeholder perspectives. We will address the following fundamental question: From an interdisciplinary perspective, what are the core practices that should be employed in developing and using models to support integrated water resource management? Effective practices can be wrapped in different forms and formats to serve research (e.g. research publications), teaching (e.g. curricula), management (e.g. training courses and accreditation), and implementation (e.g. documented methodologies) purposes.
The Theme Building Resources for Complex, Action-Oriented Team Science provides opportunities for the wider global community to interact with this Pursuit.
Resources:
Resource Title | Brief Summary |
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Ten Dimensions of Integration: Guidelines for Modellers |
Mar 08, 2016 Article published in Integration and Implementation Insights. |
Moving from Models that Synthesize to Models that Innovate |
Mar 24, 2016 Article published in Integration and Implementation Insights. |
Should Water Scientists Be Advocates? |
Apr 14, 2016 Article published in Integration and Implementation Insights. |
Choosing a Model: If All You Have Is a Hammer |
Jun 02, 2016 Article published in Integration and Implementation Insights. |
Tool Users Old and New: Why We Need Models |
Jun 23, 2016 Article published in Integration and Implementation Insights. |
Making Predictions Under Uncertainty |
Aug 25, 2016 Article published in Integration and Implementation Insights. |
ICTAM: Bringing mental models to numerical models |
Sep 22, 2016 Article published in Integration and Implementation Insights. |
Should I Trust that Model? |
Oct 06, 2016 Article published in Integration and Implementation Insights. |
Communicating uncertainty: design patterns for framing model results in scientific publications |
Nov 29, 2015 Conference proceeding from the 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. |
Model Complexity - What is the Right Amount? |
Nov 03, 2016 Article published in Integration and Implementation Insights. |