A water resources simulation gaming model for the Invitational Drought Tournament

作者：Wang K; Davies E G R^*

来源：Journal of Environmental Management, 2015, 160: 167-183.

DOI：10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.06.007

• System dynamics
• Drought management
• Socio-economic drought
• Invitational Drought Tournament
• Simulation gaming
• Water resources management

A system dynamics-based simulation gaming model, developed as a component of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Invitational Drought Tournament (IDT; Hill et al., 2014), is introduced in this paper as a decision support tool for drought management at the river-basin scale. This IDT Model provides a comprehensive and integrated overview of drought conditions, and illustrates the broad effects of socioeconomic drought and mitigation strategies. It is intended to provide a safe, user-friendly experimental environment with fast run-times for testing management options, and to promote collaborative decision-making and consensus building. Examples of model results from several recent IDT events demonstrate potential effects of drought and the short-to longer-term effectiveness of policies selected by IDT teams; such results have also improved teams' understanding of the complexity of water resources systems and their management trade-offs. The IDT Model structure and framework can also be reconfigured quickly for application to different river basins.

• 出版日期2015-9-1