Table 2. Description of the participatory process developed using Bayesian networks in the Upper Guadiana Basin (May 2007-April 2008).
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Objectives |
Tools |
Program/Organization |
Results |
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| 1. Definition of the system |
Identify the most relevant variables
in the system, including potential actions and indicators. |
Stakeholders were divided in two
groups, who attended two different sessions (One questionnaire for each network):
- representatives of farmers and the agricultural administration; and
- representatives of environmental associations and the
River Basin Authority.
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Introduction to BNs.
Outline of the future steps for BN construction.
BNs were constructed from the beginning during the meeting.
Duration: 6 h per meeting. |
Four networks (one by session
for each of the two scales).
Answers to the questionnaires. |
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| 2. Individual interviews |
a) Validate the preliminary network.
b) Obtain missing data.
c) Check if the states defined by the data collected were
close to reality. |
Questionnaire explaining previous
work, and asking improvements for:
- structure of the network;
- states of each variable; and
- data collected, with its information source (as a
way to improve data transparency).
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Two researches asked questions
from the questionnaire to each stakeholder.
Ten representatives of the four stakeholder groups were interviewed.
Duration: 2 h per interview. |
Validation of the network and
the states.
New data and sources of data. |
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| 3. Plenary meeting |
a) Check the last changes of the
network.
b) Define the probabilities of the states of each variable. |
PowerPoint presentations explaining:
- structure of the network variable by variable; and
- probabilities that needed to be completed.
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Open discussions guided by the
slides.
Duration: 4 h. |
Validated structure of the network.
Expert inputs to set probabilities. |
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| 4. Evaluation meeting |
Check, collect feedback, and evaluate
the preliminary results. |
Document and explain the final
BNs and their preliminary results. |
One week before the meeting the
document was sent to the stakeholders.
During the meeting the document guided the discussions
Duration: 2 h. |
Evaluation of the preliminary
results. |
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