Diapositiva 1

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Water Saving in Mediterranean Agriculture
Future Research Needs
14-17 February 2007 - CIHEAM Bari, Italy
Application of the NETSYMOD approach in support
of decisions about irrigation management Anita
Fassio
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Outline of presentation

• Participation and decision making
• NetSyMoD
• The ISIIMM Project and the Italian case study
• NetSyMoD application
• Results
• Key messages

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Guidance on PP in relation to the Water Framework
Directive

• Potential benefits of public participation
  processes are
• increasing public awareness of environmental
  issues
• making use of knowledge, experience and
  initiatives of the different stakeholders and
  thus improving the quality of the decisions
• public acceptance, commitment and support with
  regard to decision-taking processes
• more transparent and more creative
  decision-making
• less litigation, misunderstanding, fewer delays
  and more effective implementation
• social learning and experience.

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NetSyMoD

• Network Analysis Creative System Modelling
  Decision Support
• Natural Resources Management Research Programme
  at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (NRM-Feem)
• A flexible approach aimed at facilitating the
  involvement of stakeholders in the process of
  IWRM and NRM in general
• The problem itself, the information, and the
  choice set are defined with the contribution of
  different actors, who may be experts, or the
  stakeholders and the decision makers that are
  either formally or informally involved in the
  process
• The main assumption of NetSyMod is that creative
  system modelling and decision support systems may
  provide not only a common ground for mutual
  understanding between the involved parties, but
  also a scientifically sound basis for effective
  decision making

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communication adaptation
ACTOR ANALYSIS
ACTIONS MONITORING
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Social Networks
decisions
3-step approach
ANALYSIS OF OPTIONS
PROBLEM ANALYSIS
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preferences
scenarios models
CREATIVE SYSTEM MODELLING
information management
DSS DESIGN
NetSyMoD Network Analysis Creative System
Modelling Decision Support
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ISIIMM Project

• Institutional and Social Innovations in
  Irrigation Mediterranean Management Project
  funded by the EC under the MEDA Water Programme
  initiative
• Co-ordinator Agropolis (Montpellier, France)
• The main concern is irrigation management in
  Mediterranean catchment areas (in France, Italy,
  Spain, Morocco, Egypt and Lebanon) and its aim is
  to share experiences, knowledge and find
  innovative institutional solutions to local water
  management involving water users, citizens,
  development agents, researchers and
  administrations.

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Italian case study context

• The Battle of the Piave
• Urban sprawl
• Decline of agriculture
• Low-efficiency gravitational irrigation

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Italian case study project

• Integrated project aiming at conceiving a
  pressurised dual water system together with a new
  sewerage network

Consorzio di Bonifica Destra Piave ASU
Schievenin
Dual distribution network project

New sewerage system
Conversion of the current surface irrigation
system with a subsurface pressurised sprinkler
system Supply of non potable water for
landscape purposes.
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Objectives of application of NetSyMoD to case
study

• To manage and facilitate the participatory
  process of the actors involved in the Italian
  case study and to test the various components of
  the approach itself
• identify and involve local actors in the planning
  process of the project
• collect information and opinions related to water
  resources management in the area and to the
  project
• contribute to the evaluation of the rationality
  of the restructuring of the irrigation system in
  the light of different possible future evolutions
  of the territory

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Application of NetSyMoD to case study

• Identification and involvement of actors and
  Social Network Analysis
• Elicitation of knowledge and preferences from
  actors
• Analysis of options

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I. Identification and involvement of actors and
Social Network Analysis

• Actors identification
• interviews to authorities responsible for
  on-site institutional activities
• once identified, stakeholders involvement by
  means of individual meetings, interviews and the
  organisation of local seminars
• SNA - data on relations and positions of the
  identified actors was analysed in order to
• assess stakeholders interests and influence and
  the ways in which those interests affect the
  decision-making process
• identify the relationships between the selected
  actors
• identify the key stakeholders to involve in the
  core of the participatory modelling process - a
  Creative System Modelling Workshop on scenario
  building and evaluation

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II. Elicitation of knowledge and preferences from
actors

• Creative System Modelling Workshop Treviso 14
  December 2005
• In the seminar, selected local actors were put
  together to exchange views and experiences and to
  discuss future scenarios. Participants were asked
  to
• create a shared vision of the problem related to
  future land and water uses
• judge the strengths and weaknesses of the project
  in the light of the evolution of water and
  agricultural policies and the dynamics of the
  territory

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Cognitive mapping for problem exploration
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III. Analysis of options

• mDSS for analysis of options and ID of best
  option
• Decision Support System software shell providing
  multiple criteria analysis capabilities developed
  in a previous research project, MULINO (FEEM)
• through the application of Multi-Criteria
  Decision methods, the best option is
  identified, i.e. the solution which performs
  better according to the agreed set of evaluation
  criteria and their weights

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Qualitative analysis with mDSS4 (1)
The Analysis Matrix is filled with values
provided by previous studies, modelling and/or
judgements by the stakeholders involved
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Qualitative analysis with mDSS4 (2)
Ranking of alternative options and communication
of results
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Results

• collection of opinions concerning water
  management from main stakeholders
• collection of visions concerning possible future
  land and water uses in the pilot area
• general agreement on the fact that water
  conservation measures need to be introduced
• general pessimism about the future of agriculture
  in the area
• general acceptance of the new irrigation system
  project, independently from future scenarios
• The results obtained constitute good ground for
  further discussion among participants and were
  useful to gain insight into the problem from
  other perspectives, which may then facilitate the
  process of decision-making, as well as encourage
  negotiations and help to reduce conflicts

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Key messages

• The process of participatory model-building can
  bring about substantial benefits and improvements
  in the management of natural resources, in terms
  of increased knowledge and awareness, reduction
  of conflicts, and easier implementation of the
  selected management strategies
• In the field of natural resources management,
  there is a need to develop and apply robust
  methodologies to link formal, analytical tools
  provided by the scientific community and
  qualitative information and cognitive models that
  result from participatory approaches
• The combination of qualitative models developed
  by stakeholders and more complex simulation
  models within the same conceptual and decision
  framework may contribute to increase quality of
  decision processes

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Contacts

• Anita Fassio Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
  (FEEM)
• Tel [phone] anita.fassio_at_feem.it
• Carlo Giupponi Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
  (FEEM)
• Tel [phone] carlo.giupponi_at_feem.it
• For more information on NetSyMoD
  http//www.netsymod.eu
• For more information on mDSS http//siti.feem.it/
  mulino/ and http//www.netsymod.eu/mdss/
• For more information on the ISIIMM Project
  http//www.isiimm.agropolis.org