PROGRAM

PART I

14:30 Welcome by the project principle investigators

14:35 Flashlight presentations of different project components

15:00 Short responses from advisory board members

15:15 Q&A session

PART II

15:35 Experiences working and modeling with stakeholders at IIASA: Facilitated

         focus-group discussions

16:50 Summary and outlook

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Conflicting views on procedural and outcome fairness often remain unresolved and jeopardize finding viable solutions for many nexus issues. Improving our ability to understand and reconcile these claims about what is fair, is key for managing risks for example at the food-water-biodiversity nexus. This is a major challenge that requires the integration of multiple sources of knowledge and the cooperation of many different societal actors.

To support this endeavour IIASA researchers need to align their expertise in co-designing participatory processes with those in quantitative modelling. To this extent, we will first create a methods toolkit for co-production that explicitly considers procedural and distributional justice. Based on this toolkit we will then design and implement a co-production process, which we will support and upscale by quantifying distributional justice in stakeholder visions for future development of the region. We do so by building a large-scale agent-based model, coupled to a hydrological and biodiversity model, that simulates millions of individual farmers.

The developed methods will be applied in a case study of the Bhima basin in India.