Decision Support Systems
Land use models in complex societal problem solving: Plug and play or networking?
Environmental Modelling & Software
A modelling framework to support farmers in designing agricultural production systems
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
Position Paper: Modelling with stakeholders
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
A methodology for the design and development of integrated models for policy support
Environmental Modelling & Software
Editorial: A guide to expert opinion in environmental modelling and management
Environmental Modelling & Software
Position Paper: The role of expert opinion in environmental modelling
Environmental Modelling & Software
Stakeholder driven update and improvement of a national water resources model
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
Joint stakeholder decision-making on the management of the Silao-Romita aquifer using AHP
Environmental Modelling & Software
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Environmental Modelling & Software
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Engagement with farmers and landowners is often undertaken by the research community to obtain information relating to typical land, livestock and enterprise management and generally centres on responses to questionnaire surveys. Farmers and land managers are constituted as expert observers of ground-level processes and provide diverse information on farming practices, enterprise economics and underpinning attitudes towards risk. Research projects designed to inform policy and practice may rely on such data to understand better on-the-ground decisions that can impact on environmental quality and the rural economy. Such approaches to eliciting local-level expert knowledge can generate large quantities of data from which to formulate rules relating to farm enterprise types. In turn, this can help to inform the structure of Decision Support Systems (DSS) and risk-based tools to determine farming practices likely to impact on environmental quality. However, in this paper we advocate the need for integrated farmer participation throughout the whole research process - from project inception through to community qualitative validation and legitimation - and thus not just for the elicitation of questionnaire responses. With farm questionnaire surveys being adopted widely by the research community, it is an opportune time to highlight a recent case study of the Taw catchment, Devon, UK. This serves as an example of co-construction of a DSS via a co-ordinated and integrated approach to expert elicitation with a farmer questionnaire survey as a central methodology. The aim of the paper is to detail the core aspects of an iterative cycle of participatory environmental management and DSS development for water quality protection and consider the multiple benefits of co-ordinated programmes of engagement with the farming community in this process.