Let Me Be Learned: Decision Support Aiding Public Participation (PAP015041)

Código

PAP015041

Autores

Raymond Laine, Chris Cook

Tema

Flood resilient societies through community preparedness

Resumo

With best practice floodplain management processes rightly emphasising the need for a collaborative, transparent and inclusive approach to improve community resilience, this paper presents a new Engagement Decision Support System (EDSS) as a mechanism to assist in this process. This paper will explore the need, theory and development of a floodplain management EDSS and present trial results, where the tool has been successfully utilised for three catchments in New South Wales, Australia. The results from these trials, indicate that a well-structured, engagement focused decision support system can provide a mechanism for and empower stakeholders (community members, councillors, developers, planners, engineers etc.) to learn about, prioritise and make informed decisions about floodplain management options for their local catchment in a transparent objective facilitated process.