UNDUE
| WATER MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE UNDER UNCERTAINTY: A MEDITERRANEAN WATERSHED | ||
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Facing uncertainty when making decision choices in water resources management is, and will continue to be, unavoidable. A matter that in addition to the best available scientific knowledge and models, requires deep insights into the social relational processes that underlie decision making. While this issue is not new, and has been extensively acknowledged in the scholarly literature, however methodological and practical applications for managing uncertainty lag behind. |
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| There is still a tendency in characterizing and modelling
uncertainties associated with the natural systems focusing in the
reduction of deficits of knowledge, while keeping the social and
ambiguous aspects separated. Breaking this cycle, is particularly
relevant for managing natural resources under climate change, since
uncertainties in the factual knowledge base are huge, and framings are
multiple and contested.
The objective of UNDUE is advancing in the understanding of the role and
function of uncertainty in collective decision-making processes in
water management, and how uncertainty is approached and handled when
making decisions. UNDUE will develop and use innovative participatory
modelling approaches and social experimentation to explore the effects
of uncertainties in different decision settings. In doing so, UNDUE will
take a social relational perspective, where uncertainty, beyond being a
deficit of knowledge, also includes the ambiguity resulting from the
differences in meanings and interpretations that the different actors
bring into decision making. Addressing primarily Challenge 6 (Social
Sciences and Humanities, and Sciences with and for Society) and
secondarily Challenge 5 (Climate Change and use of natural resources),
UNDUE will analyze real collective decision-making situations concerning
water management and governance in the Spanish Mediterranean semiarid
region. Specifically looking at the Mijares watershed, and the
reactivation of the water cycle as way to cope with climate change
impacts. UNDUE will result in an improved understanding of the effects
of uncertainty in water management, particularly in the context of the
case study, and a toolkit of concepts, methods, protocols, models and
guidance, aiming at supporting collective decision-making processes
under uncertainty.
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Start date:2021-09-01 |
End date: 2024-08-31 |
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Call: MINECO_PROYECTOS_RETOS_2020 |
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Key people involved in BC3: |
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| MARCELA BRUGNACH BOSCO LLISO NOELIA ZAFRA ITXASO RUIZ |
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«Proyectos de I+D+i» ref. PID2020-114944RB-I00 por MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033
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