Jonathan Smith's List: MILM - IECN

• Negotiation Support Models for Integrated Natural Resource Management in Tropical Forest Margins

  • A tool for management.
• Challenges to INRM research remain: how should the opportunities for adaptive response among diverse interest groups, at a number of hierarchical levels, be included in the assessment of impacts on the livelihoods of rural people?

• the need to study natural   resources management from integrated perspective for sustainable development.

• Integrated natural resource management (INRM) and its many closely related approaches are generally considered to be more effective than single-disciplinary approaches for managing the complex resource issues currently facing many countries.
• management strategies for sustaining natural resource stocks and flows of goods and services as well as their underlying ecological processes.
• the key focus of INRM should not be the natural resource itself, but rather the interactions of humans with each other and with their natural environment, and the decisions they make about using and managing resources
• There must also be iterative, regular monitoring and fine-tuning of the management strategies chosen.
• This emerging management concept has been known by at least 36 alternative terms (Downs and Gregory 1991), including "integrated catchment management," "integrated environmental management," "ecosystem management," and "systems analysis." In this paper, we use the term "integrated natural resource management" (INRM).
• it does not yet

  • Article was 2001

• It is generally accepted that any systems approach adopted should: 

   

  • integrate multiple disciplines, 

     

  • span spatial and temporal scales, and 

     

  • involve multiple stakeholders in planning and implementation.
   

   However, the application of INRM still poses significant problems even when all of the key elements are in place (Gunderson et al. 1995, Bellamy and Johnson 2000). These problems are related mainly to the predispositions of stakeholders, researchers, and technical experts as well as managers, farmers, and other end users (Resource Assessment Commission 1993). 
• INRM should be seen as an iterative and adaptive decision-making process
• identify research issues and to implement participatory research in support of stakeholder-based decision making

  • Fine, but also need it to directly support/influence decision-making or else "why"?

• Decision support system (DSS)

   

   A decision support system (DSS) is an integrative analytical tool that describes key processes and spatial and temporal connections within and between human and biophysical subsystems from a systems perspective. It uses a multidisciplinary approach to provide a definitive representation of a system, using mathematical algorithms where relevant. Multiple management objectives are recognized and built into the evaluation framework (Kersten et al. 2000). A DSS comprises data sets, key analytical models, and a user interface, and is central to the dialectic decision-making process. 

  • A GIS is one of these.
• This type of decision-making process is aided by the use of a DSS.

  • In reality, doesn't political power supercede these types of discussion, or is this a context-specific (Botswana) observation?
• (Fig. 1).

  • Can use this as an excellent example framework to go through
• In any multidisciplinary environment, a conflict of interests, values, and approaches is inevitable.

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