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Collaborative exploration of water resources protection – different scenarios
In 2015 AWARD initiated an innovative approach to support climate change planning and action using a collaborative process. Based on qualitative systems dynamic modelling, this involved working with stakeholders to supports them to ‘build a collaborative picture’ of how things are linked in an area of concern, say a degrading river and water supply (creating a model of the way a the system of interest works) and then exploring how change reverberates through the system (using so-called formal dynamic modelling). This work is now referred to as CoDyM for short and uses a systemic and collaborative social learning approach.
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