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In this chapter, we present a proposal for decision aiding in a participatory situation in the real world may constitute, in particular for water management. We first outline the context in which these decision-aiding processes take place: messy inter-organizational settings. We then present some of the available decision-aiding theories and models that could be used and adapt one of these, a decision-aiding process model based on Tsoukiàs (Annals of Operations Research 154:3–27, 2007), for this inter-organizational context. We next highlight how the model was used in a research intervention for the creation of the Lower Hawkesbury Estuary Management Plan in Australia. We demonstrate how this model significantly aided the structuring of the decision-aiding process and promoted insights on its usefulness and validity. We also provide an ex-post operational validation of the Mazri (Apport méthodologique pour la structuration de processus de décision publique en contexte participatif. Le cas des risques industriels majeurs en France, 2007) decision-aiding model for participatory structure design. From the real-world intervention case, we also justify our claims that (1) we need decision-aiding methodologies to improve inter-organizational decision making for water management, as well as theoretical models and problem-structuring methods that can form useful parts of these methodologies; and (2) we need negotiation skills, amongst others, for putting the methodologies in place in the real world.
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Thanks to all workshop participants of the LHEMP, as well as the organizers and supporters of the process, including Peter Coad, Philip Haines, Ian White, Natalie Jones, Michael Baker, Verity Rollason, Michelle Fletcher, Kristy Guise, Ross McPherson, Nils Ferrand, Stuart Burn and Pascal Perez.
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Daniell, K.A., Mazri, C., Tsoukiàs, A. (2010). Real-World Decision Aiding: A Case in Participatory Water Management. In: Rios Insua, D., French, S. (eds) e-Democracy . Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9045-4_8
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