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Assessing stakeholder evaluation concerns: An application to the Central Arizona water resources system
Author(s) -
Robin Keller L.,
Kirkwood Craig W.,
Jones Nancy S.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
systems engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.474
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1520-6858
pISSN - 1098-1241
DOI - 10.1002/sys.20132
Subject(s) - stakeholder , structuring , stakeholder analysis , set (abstract data type) , water resources , management science , computer science , variety (cybernetics) , point (geometry) , environmental planning , environmental resource management , operations research , business , process management , engineering , political science , geography , environmental science , public relations , mathematics , ecology , finance , biology , programming language , geometry , artificial intelligence
We present an approach for efficiently assessing stakeholder evaluation concerns in the first stage of problem structuring for decisions involving complex systems. We used a Web survey to assess the appropriateness of a set of evaluation concerns for evaluating Central Arizona water resources system policies and to gather information on stakeholder priorities. The resulting set of concerns brings a “decision focus” to the modeling efforts of the NSF‐funded Decision Center for a Desert City at Arizona State University. This problem structuring approach, the set of evaluation concerns, and the analysis of variations among stakeholder group priorities can serve as a starting point for other similar policy settings. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Eng