Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems
Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems
Applied Optimal Control and Estimation
Applied Optimal Control and Estimation
Business Dynamics
Uncertainty in the environmental modelling process - A framework and guidance
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
Challenging beliefs through multi-level participatory modelling in Indonesia
Environmental Modelling & Software
Sharing the floodplain: Mediated modeling for environmental management
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
Constructing model credibility in the context of policy appraisal
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
Position Paper: The role of expert opinion in environmental modelling
Environmental Modelling & Software
A fuzzy GIS-based system to integrate local and technical knowledge in soil salinity monitoring
Environmental Modelling & Software
Spatial model steering, an exploratory approach to uncertainty awareness in land use allocation
Environmental Modelling & Software
Procedural knowledge for integrated modelling: Towards the Modelling Playground
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
Review: A critical review of integrated urban water modelling - Urban drainage and beyond
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
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Integrated environmental resources management is a purposeful activity with the goal to maintain and improve the state of an environmental resource affected by human activities. In many cases different goals are in conflict and the notion ''integrated'' clearly indicates that resources management should be approached from a broad perspective taking all potential trade-offs and different scales in space and time into account. However, we are yet far from putting into practice integrated resources management fully taking into account the complexity of human-technology-environment systems. The tradition of resources management and of dealing with environmental problems is characterized by a command and control approach. The increasing awareness for the complexity of environmental problems and of human-technology-environment systems has triggered the development of new management approaches. The paper discusses the importance of focusing on the transition to new management paradigms based on the insight that the systems to be managed are complex adaptive systems. It provides arguments for the role of social learning processes and the need to develop methods combining approaches from hard and soft systems analysis. Soft systems analysis focuses on the importance of subjective perceptions and socially constructed reality. Soft systems methods and group model building techniques are quite common in management science where the prime target of management has always been the social system. Resources management is still quite slow to take up such innovations that should follow as a logical consequence of adopting an integrated management approach. Integrated water resources management is used as example to provide evidence for the need to implement participatory and adaptive management approaches that are able to cope with increasing uncertainties arising from fast changing socio-economic conditions and global and climate change. Promising developments and future research directions are discussed. The paper concludes with pointing out the need for changes in the scientific community to improve the conditions for interdisciplinary, system-oriented and trans-disciplinary research.