How is technology transforming natural resource management and environmental protection decision making processes?
• Many resource managers don’t yet understand or appreciate the implications of the new technologies for enhancing decision-making processes. Many believe that technology complicates their jobs (i.e., it was easier/faster for them to make a decision without all of the collaborative input). • Funding is also seen as an obstacle to technology adoption; we need to find more cost effective solutions in the selection and application of technologies. • Concerns remain regarding data quality and validation; we need to be transparent about where the information comes from. • Technology can also overwhelm people and make them accept an “argument” without really understanding how it is created (“Beware the dazzling overwhelmingness”). • Assessment, training, and capacity building are necessary aspects of developing programs that effectively integrate ECR and technology. • We need good stories and case examples where technology has played an important role in facilitating dialogue, deliberation a
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