An Adaptable Integrated Modelling Platform to Support Rapidly Evolving Agricultural and Environmental Policy
Preprint 2023 en
Authors
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Paula A. Harrison
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Kate Beauchamp
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Joe Cooper
Abstract
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The utility of integrated models for informing policy has been criticised due to limited stakeholder engagement, model opaqueness, inadequate transparency in assumptions, lack of model flexibility and lack of communication of uncertainty that, together, lead to a lack of trust in model outputs. We present the ERAMMP Integrated Modelling Platform (IMP) for supporting the development of “business-critical” policies focused on agriculture, land-use and natural resource management. We demonstrate how the long-term (>5 years), iterative, two-way and continuously evolving participatory process led to the co-creation of the IMP with government, building trust and understanding in a complex integrated model. This is supported by a customisable modelling framework that is sufficiently flexible to adapt to changing policy needs in near real-time. We discuss how these attributes have facilitated cultural change within Welsh Government where the IMP is being actively used to explore, test and iterate policy design prior to final implementation.
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