Book Reviews

摘要

Co-Engineering and Participatory Water Management: Organizational Challenges for Water Governance fills an important gap in the literature both increasing our understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different decision support and participatory water management approaches and empirically testing a new collaborative model for interorganizational cooperation where multiple organizations work together to initiate, design, and implement (co-engineer) a participatory modeling process to inform decision making. Although there has been scholarship and theory on decision aiding and participatory modeling, this book advances the field by extending that work to examine co-engineering of participatory modeling in an interorganizational context. Given the breadth of coverage in this text from the theoretical literature (e.g., the theory of decision aiding, participatory modeling, and co-engineering), to research methods and in-depth examples of co-engineering and participatory modeling for decision aiding in two river basins, this text may be of use to a wide audience.