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This volume provides the fundamentals of involving stakeholders in collaborative modeling of energy systems, including the technical subsystem as well as its economic, social, environmental and political subsystems. It presents a Stakeholder-Assisted Modeling and Policy Design (SAM-PD) framework that can be applied by energy system developers, managers and decisionmakers to involve a wide range of stakeholders in group model-building on a larger scale. By illustrating the capabilities of the SAM-PD framework, the book introduces an actual case study of the Cape Wind Offshore Wind Energy project. This case study details the process by which the author brought together a large number of stakeholders to jointly model the Cape Wind energy system and its broader implications for the regional energy picture and the regional economy and environment. It also offers the most recent in-depth analysis of the Cape Wind project.
List of contents
Challenges for Effective Use of Science in Engineering Systems Policy; Perceived Technical Expert Bias and Scientific Advocacy; Communicating Science and Scientific Uncertainty; Interactions among Stakeholders; Decision-Makers and Technical Experts; System Representations and System Models as Boundary Objects in Science-Intensive Disputes; Obstacles to Increasing the Role of Expertise in Decision-making; System Representations and the Abstraction of Reality; System Representations; Stakeholders; Conflicts and Systems Representation; Challenges with Involving Stakeholder in Engineering Systems Representation; The Stakeholder-Assisted Modeling and Policy Design Process (SAM-PD); Applying the SAM-PD Process to the Cape Wind Project.
