Module 4: River Basin Management Planning regarding Blueprint Document, Training Skills, Transboundary Issues, Public Consultation, Negotiation Skills

Module 4: River Basin Management Planning regarding Blueprint Document, Training Skills,

Transboundary Issues, Public Consultation, Negotiation Skills.

RBM Planning and Decision Support Systems

Senad Ploco

March, 2015

ICZM Training, Georgetown XI/1999

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What is DSS all about?

Klein and Methlie (1995) defined a decision support

system (DSS) as: "A computer information system

that provides information in a given domain of

application by means of analytical decision models

and access to databases, in order to support a

decision maker in making decisions effectively in

complex and ill-structured tasks."


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DSS: basic features

to support - not to make decisions; to improve the quality of decisions; to structure decision making process; to facilitate dialogue with stakeholders; to integrate NRM, SEM and AIM; to speed up evaluation process.


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What a DSS is supposed to do?

to support one or all phases of RBM planning cycle (problem definition, planning, development, implementation and monitoring);

to store relevant RBM data/information and enable their processing towards assessing all feasible options;

to be predictive.


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DSS: major components

measurement module; information module;modelling module,evaluating module;presentation module;user interface.


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Evaluating module

impact assessment;

multicriteria analysis;

score cards;

risk and sensitivity analysis.


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Practical EXCEL Examples

1. Private decision (selection of faculty)

2. Water supply and sanitation

3. PoM for RBM planning

Documents

Module 4: River Basin Management Planning regarding Blueprint Document, Training Skills, Transboundary Issues, Public Consultation, Negotiation Skills