Integrative approach to regional water schemes in South Africa

Integrative approach to regional water schemes in South Africa

van Waas, R (External organisation)
Slinger, J (TU Delft Policy Analysis)
van Splunter, S. (TU Delft System Engineering)

Chichakly, K (editor)
Saeed, K (editor)

2015

This article explores the use of a System Dynamics model as a boundary object in a case study regarding decision-making on water scarcity in South Africa. The model integrates expertise from the hydrological and ecological sciences with socio-economic information for a specific area, the Mossel Bay region. The model proved to be adaptable to multiple stakeholders, robust enough to maintain identity across stakeholders, and succeeded in allowing different stakeholders to work together without necessarily requiring consensus. This study supported communication between the stakeholders and enhanced the democratization of the decision-making processes by improving deliberation1 on contentious issues. Further applications of boundary spanning activities using system dynamics modeling in other cases is recommended.

System Dynamics
Boundary Objects
Coastal/Estuarine Negotiation
Policy Analysis
water management

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System Dynamics Society

Proceedings of the 33rd international conference of the system dynamics society

33rd international conference of the system dynamics society, Cambridge, USA, 2015-07-19 → 2015-07-23, Albany, USA

Institutional Repository

conference paper

© 2015 R van Waas, J Slinger, S. van Splunter