Current state
FIRMA: Zurich case study
Putting pieces together
Matt Hare, Davide Medugno, Claudia Pahl-Wostl
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Gemeinderat
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SVGW
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Geberit
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SSIV
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FGZ
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Householders
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private
public
year of
foundation
Formal
institutions
not
organized
Informal
institutions
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Konsumentenforum
•participation through group
model building and role
playing
public /
private
How are they organized?
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SIA
WVZ
highly
aggregated
individual
european
national
regional
local
Collection of data
of different types:
ERZ
aggregated
Data
level of
representation
scale of action
•ongoing development and
testing of the integrated
system model
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1934
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1837
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1961
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1873
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1874
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1868
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1891
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1924
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•preparing the 5th meeting
of the actors’ platform
(issues: impact of water
saving technology, need for
institutional change)
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•demand data
•technical data
Technical Model
•climate data
•demographic
data
Model of
supply
network
•laws and
norms
Demand Model
Water
demand of
households
Original board
game version of
Zurich Water
Game (also
collab. with
Surrey University
on Internet
Version ZWG3)
Market for
sanitary
goods
Market Model
Game session in
participatory setting to
improve actors’ system
knowledge and to elicit
and validate rules
Mental
Models
How do
actors
interact?
Institutional Model
Relevant publications and articles in press.
- Moss, S., Pahl-Wostl, C., and Downing,T (2001). Agent based integrated assessment modelling. Integrated Assessment, 2, 17-30.
- Downing, T., Moss, S., Pahl-Wostl, C. (2001). Understanding Climate Policy Using Participatory Agent-Based Social Simulation. Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence: Multi-Agent-Based Simulation. Ed by Moss,S. and Davidsson,P. Springer, Berlin.
- Pahl-Wostl, C. (in press) Polycentric Integrated Assessement in: Scaling Issues in Integrated Assessmented by Rotmans, J. Kluwer.
- Hare, M., Pahl-Wostl, C., Medugno, D., Asakawa, T., Gilbert, N. and Heeb, J. (in press) The development of internet support for long-term
participatory group learning about problems and solutions to sustainable urban water supply management. To appear in the proceedings of
Environmental Informatics 2001, 15th International Symposium Informatics for Environmental Protection, Zürich, Switzerland, October 2001.
- Hare, M., Pahl-Wostl, C. (in press) Model uncertainty derived from choice of agent rationality - a lesson for policy assessment modelling. To
appear in proceedings of the ESS2001 European Simulation Symposium, Marseille, France, October, 2001.
- Hare, M., Deadman, P., Lim, K. (in press) Towards a Taxonomy of Agent Based Models in Environmental Management. To appear in the
proceedings of MODSIM 2001 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Canberra, Australia, December 2001.
-Hare, M. and Pahl-Wostl. C. (submitted) Stakeholders' stakeholder categorisations: an empirical study. Submitted to Integrated Assessment special
issue on water resources management.
Other manuscripts
Pahl-Wostl, C. Participative and Stakeholder-based policy design, analysis and evaluation processes.
Pahl-Wostl, C. Information, Public Empowerment and the Management of Urban Watersheds.
Pahl-Wostl, C. Towards Sustainability: Transformation Processes in the Water Sector.
Acknowledgements
This work is carried out as part of the FIRMA (Freshwater Integrated Resource Management
with Agents) Project and is supported by the European Union's Framework 5 Programme for
Research and Development (contract EVK1-CT1999-00016) and the Swiss Federal Government.
Many thanks to all FIRMA project partners, especially Surrey University and, above all,
Johannes Heeb, Seecon GmbH.
•Provide
rules for
the game
•show
views of
the actors