SAF e-learning material
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Issue Identification
Task: list human activities, map institutions and stakeholders, identify relevant social, economic, environmental components and dependencies (DPSIR & CATWOE), map Ecosystem Services.
System Design
Task: define administrative and virtual system boundaries and ESE linkages, assess the system state (sustainability & Ecosystem Services), identify external hazards, develop a conceptual model, assess data and model resources, develop and discuss feasible alternative scenarios, define success criteria and indicators
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| SAF - System Design: Theory |
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| SAF - System Design: Exercise |
System Formulation
Task: identify and assemble data inputs and variables, build, test, document, calibrate and validate ESE model components.
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| SAF - System Formulation: theory |
| SAF - System Formulation: modeling |
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| SAF - System Formulation: Modeling Exercise |
| Background material for Modeling Exercise: Case Studies |
System Assessment and Implementation
Task: link ESE model components into a ESE systems model, run scenario simulations, analyse output data.
Task: specify regulatory and financial requirements, obtain permits, ensure pro-active public information and consultation, identify mitigation measures to reduce, offset, or eliminate negative impacts.
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Monitoring & Evaluation
Task: ensure that required mitigation measures are implemented, evaluate whether mitigation measures are working effectively, validate the accuracy of models or projections, assess if the objectives were reached (indicators), review of the process.
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| Sustainability indicators background |
| Sustainability indicators application and examples |
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| Indicator application: Exercise |
| Final task |
Case study examples
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