Collaborative modeling and decision-making for complex energy systems
This volume provides the fundamentals of involving stakeholders in collaborative modeling of energy systems, including the technical subsystem as well as its economic, social, environmental and political subsystems. It presents a Stakeholder-Assisted Modeling and Policy Design (SAM-PD) framework tha...
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Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. :
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Introduction. 1.1. Motivation and context : Engineering systems and stakeholder involvement. 1.2. Significance of the book topic. 1.3. Towards a better energy systems decision-making process. 1.4. Approach. 1.5. The importance of systems representation. 1.6. Chapter summary
- ch. 2. Systems analysis. 2.1. What are engineering systems? 2.2. Engineering systems analysis methodologies. 2.3. Critique of engineering systems methodologies. 2.4. Chapter summary
- ch. 3. The role of expert analysis in complex systems decisions. 3.1. The role of technical expertise in engineering systems policy-making. 3.2. Challenges for effective use of science in engineering systems policy. 3.3. Perceived technical expert bias and scientific advocacy. 3.4. Communicating science and scientific uncertainty. 3.5. Interactions among stakeholders, decision-makers and technical experts/experts. 3.6. System representations and system models as boundary objects in science-intensive disputes. 3.7. Obstacles to increasing the role of expertise in decision-making. 3.8. Chapter summary
- ch. 4. Systems representation and decision-making. 4.1. Representations and the abstraction of reality. 4.2. Internal representation : Mental maps. 4.3. External representation : Words and imagery. 4.4. Representations, beliefs and value systems. 4.5. Representation and bias. 4.6. Engineering systems representation. 4.7. Experiments in engineering systems representation. 4.8. Stakeholders, conflict and systems representation. 4.9. Challenges of involving stakeholders in engineering systems representation. 4.10. Designing an effective stakeholder-assisted representation process. 4.11. Limitations of system representations as a basis for collaborative processes. 4.12. Chapter summary.
- ch. 5. Stakeholder-assisted modeling and policy design. 5.1. The stakeholder-assisted modeling and policy design process. 5.2. Outline of the SAM-PD process. 5.3. Problem identification and process preparation stage. 5.4. Stakeholder assessment stage. 5.5. Extracting contextual knowledge from stakeholder statements. 5.6. System representation, evaluation and policy design stage. 5.7. Consensus-seeking negotiation. 5.8. Process effectiveness and validity assessment through peer review. 5.9. Implementation and post-implementation stage (CLIOS steps 10-12). 5.10. Chapter summary
- ch. 6. The Cape Wind Offshore Wind Energy Project. 6.1. Project timeline. 6.2. Legal context for offshore wind energy development in Massachusetts. 6.3. Project overview. 6.4. The environmental impact assessment process. 6.5. Public reaction to Cape Wind. 6.6. Stakeholder involvement in the Cape Wind Project. 6.7. Major sources of dispute in the DEIS. 6.8. Chapter summary
- ch. 7. Stakeholder-assisted modeling of Cape Wind. 7.1. Applying the SAM-PD process to the Cape Wind Project. 7.2. Problem identification and process preparation. 7.3. Stakeholder conflict assessment. 7.4. Problem refinement and system definition. 7.5. Initial stakeholder-assisted representation. 7.6. Stakeholder-refined system representation. 7.7. Workshop dynamics and results. 7.8. Stakeholder feedback survey. 7.9. Additional feedback from the stakeholder survey. 7.10. Comparing the refined stakeholder-assisted representation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers scoping document. 7.11. Chapter summary
- ch. 8. Learning from Cape Wind. 8.1. SAM-PD process preparation. 8.2. Collaborative process dynamics. 8.3. System representation as a basis for collaborative process. 8.4. Compatibility of SAM-PD with current permitting process. 8.5. Conclusion.