Integrating Climate Change Assessment Tool into Stakeholder-Driven Water Management Decision-Making Processes in California

This research paper examines the gap between the availability of climate change impact assessment tools and their actual integration into water management decision-making processes in California. The authors propose using a '3S' standard (Sensitivity, Significance, and Stakeholder support) to identify and engage with the most critical decision-making processes to move climate research into policy application.

• Scientific consensus suggests that climate change may significantly change hydrologic patterns in California during the 21st Century, which is critical because the state's hydraulic infrastructure was designed to manage specific temporal and spatial water supply and demand variability.
• Despite the existence of an integrated hydrology/water management climate change impact assessment framework designed to identify ecosystem service tradeoffs and evaluate adaptation strategies, California's water management decision-making processes have not yet fully integrated climate change analysis into planning.
• The authors utilized a '3S' standard—consisting of Sensitivity, Significance, and Stakeholder support—to rank decision-making processes, finding that while climate change is a crucial factor, it is typically not considered in an analytical sense. The authors intend to engage stakeholders in the three highest-ranked processes to transition research from academia to policy making.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2006). Integrating Climate Change Assessment Tool into Stakeholder-Driven Water Management Decision-Making Processes in California. https://www.sei.org/publications/integrating-climate-change-assessment-tool-stakeholder-driven-water-management-decision-making-processes-california/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Integrating Climate Change Assessment Tool into Stakeholder-Driven Water Management Decision-Making Processes in California. 2006. https://www.sei.org/publications/integrating-climate-change-assessment-tool-stakeholder-driven-water-management-decision-making-processes-california/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2006integrating, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Integrating Climate Change Assessment Tool into Stakeholder-Driven Water Management Decision-Making Processes in California}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2006}, month = oct, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/integrating-climate-change-assessment-tool-stakeholder-driven-water-management-decision-making-processes-california/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }