CADRe 2007 Products

The CADRE workshop produced recommendations from six working groups: Neutrality and objectivity in CADRe processes, Integrating CADRe into NEPA, Education and Training in CADRe, Community Building and Outreach – the Wiki, CADRe software and models, and Research Needs:

Neutrality and objectivity in CADRe processes – CADRe is predominantly a social and political process and not a scientific process. The objective of a CADRe process is to arrive at informed conclusions about how a public resource should be managed given public preferences and values. All people have prejudices and biases, including facilitators, modelers and those who try to combine those two roles in leading CADRe processes. more...
Integrating CADRe into NEPA – How CADRe can be incorporated in conducting collaborative NEPA processes. Can CADRe be used to speed up NEPA processes that need to be implemented as quickly as possible? How can we overcome institutional obstacle such as internal organizational resistance to collaboration, difficulties in engaging other agencies to collaborate, and generation of leadership support for a collaborative approach to NEPA and use of CADRe? more...
Education and Training in CADRe – The cross-disciplinary nature and nascent stage of CADRe as a field creates educational challenges at all levels. Practicing engineers/ modelers need to gain the skills needed to facilitate or at least participate productively in CADRe sessions. How do we attract, educate, and retain “CADRe-friendly” people and overcome the “silo effect” at many academic institutions at the undergraduate and graduate level. more...
Community Building and Outreach – the Wiki – The results of the Albuquerque CADRe workshop need to be widely publicized, through wide distribution of the proceedings and through a special edition of a journal. Potential other venues to announce the results include conferences, the next World Water Council, and AGU’s EOS newsletter. To promote follow-on and continuity, we need an interactive Web presence (the wiki) with information resources on CADRe. more...
CADRe software and models – Cultural shift is needed to allow other people to come into the modeling process. Within SVP a primary use of models is to build trust. Desired model characteristics include: transparent, visual, accessible, integrated, and flexible. How can available commercial products be linked to more complex tools; How can simple models capture the important dynamics of complex models; how can we employ an OpenMI approach for model coupling; How do we embed regional processes spatially to integrate in a state plan; Where do expert system fit in as a guide to CADRe processes? more...
Research Needs – Research needs include more synthesis from the many applications rather than individual case study write ups and descriptions, the development of Performance Measures for CADRe processes, designed case study demonstrations where concepts can be tested and further developed, visualization needs, and the interface of CADRe with Integrated Water Resources Management. The research needs from the other working groups will be incorporated into the CADRe research agenda. more...

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Revised 21 Jan 2009