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Collaborative Modeling And Decision-making For Complex Energy Systems

By: Ali Mostashari

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Hardcover | 2 February 2011

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This volume provides the fundamentals of involving stakeholders in collaborative modeling of energy systems, including the technical subsystem as well as its economic, social, environmental and political subsystems. It presents a Stakeholder-Assisted Modeling and Policy Design (SAM-PD) framework that can be applied by energy system developers, managers and decision makers to involve a wide range of stakeholders in group model-building on a larger scale.By illustrating the capabilities of the SAM-PD framework, the book introduces an actual case study of the Cape Wind Offshore Wind Energy project. This case study details the process by which the author brought together a large number of stakeholders to jointly model the Cape Wind energy system and its broader implications for the regional energy picture and the regional economy and environment. It also offers the most recent in-depth analysis of the Cape Wind project.

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Introduction	p. 1
At the Outset	p. 1
Motivation and Context: Engineering Systems and Stakeholder Involvement	p. 4
Significance of the Book Topic	p. 8
Towards a Better Energy Systems Decision-making Process	p. 12
Approach	p. 12
The Importance of Systems Representation	p. 16
Chapter Summary	p. 20
Systems Analysis	p. 23
What are Engineering Systems	p. 23]
Engineering Systems Analysis Methodologies	p. 31
Critique of Engineering Systems Methodologies	p. 45
Chapter Summary	p. 48
The Role of Export Analysis in Complex Systems Decisions	p. 51
The Role of Technical Expertise in Engineering Systems Policy-Making	p. 52
Challenges for Effective Use of Science in Engineering Systems Policy	p. 54
Perceived Technical Expert Bias and Scientific Advocacy	p. 56
Communicating Science and Scientific Uncertainty	p. 62
Interactions Among Stakeholders Decision makers and Technical Experts/Experts	p. 66
System Representations and System Models as Boundary Objects in Science-Intensive Disputes	p. 69
Obstacles to Increasing the Role of Expertise in Decision-making	p. 72
Chapter Summary	p. 74
Systems Representation and Decision-making	p. 77
Representations and the Abstraction of Reality	p. 78
Internal Representation: Mental Maps	p. 79
External Representation Words and Imagery	p. 80
Representations, Beliefs and Value Systems	p. 82
Representation and Bias	p. 83
Engineering Systems Representation	p. 85
Experiments in Engineering Systems Representation	p. 89
Stakeholders, Conflict and Systems Representation	p. 95
Challenges of Involfing Stakeholders in Engineering Systems Representation	p. 96
Designing an Effective Stakeholder Assisted-Representation Process	p. 99
Limitations of System Representations as a Basis for Collaborative Processes	p. 101
Chapter Summary	p. 102
Stakeholder-Assisted Modeling and Policy Design	p. 105
The Stakeholder-Assisted Modeling and Policy Design Process	p. 105
Outline of the SAM-PD Process	p. 108
Problem Identification and Process Preparation Stage	p. 109
Stakeholder Assessment Stage	p. 114
Extracting Contextual Knowledge from Stakeholder Statements	p. 122
System Representation, Evaluation and Policy Design Stage	p. 127
Consensus-seeking Negotiation	p. 142
Process Effectiveness and Validity Assessment Through Peer Review	p. 147
Implementation and Post-implementation Stage CLIOS Steps 10-12	p. 151
Chapter Summary	p. 154
The Cape Wind Offshore Wind Energy Project	p. 157
Project Timeline	p. 158
Legal Context for Offshore Wind Energy Development in Massachusetts	p. 159
Project Overview	p. 160
The Environmental Impact Assessment Process	p. 162
Public Reaction to Cape Wind	p. 170
Stakeholder Involvement in the Cape Wind Project	p. 173
Major Sources of Dispute in the DEIS	p. 178
Chapter Summary	p. 180
Stakeholder-Assisted Modeling of Cape Wind	p. 183
Applying the SAM-PD Process to the Cape Wind Project	p. 183
	p. roblem Ident

Problem Refinement and System Definition	p. 213
Initial Stakeholder-Assisted Representation	p. 214

Workshop Dynamics and Results	p. 250
Stakeholder Feedback Survey	p. 259
Additional Feedback from the Stakeholder Survey	p. 263
Comparing the Refined Stakeholder-Assisted Representation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Scoping Document	p. 265
Chapter Summary	p. 1278
Learning from Cape Wind	p. 279
SAM-PD Process Preparation	p. 279
Collaborative Process Dynamcis	p. 284
System Representation as a Basis for Collaborative Process	p. 285
Compatibility of SAM-PD with Current Permitting Process	p. 289
Conclusion	p. 291
Index	p. 301
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