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Appendix C: Requirements for Overcoming Integrated
Management Challenges
The implementation of ILM and the various levels of integration necessary to do
so will involve overcoming the following challenges:
ILM(M) Framework: A framework is required to identify how to overcome the
barriers to fully integrated decision-making. The framework will include a
description of the assumptions, concepts, practices, and activities associated with
integrating the necessary information across sectors, disciplines, socio-political,
or science/policy boundaries. It will also include insights into the various
approaches to achieve the necessary integration.
Modelling Capacity: This refers to the use and accessibility of various types of
analytical models (computer-based, mathematical, etc.) that can increase
understanding of a complex system. Modelling spans a wide range of issues, from
technical needs – such as developing and designing analytical models capable of
assessing the various levels of interactions and outcomes – to implementation and
training needs associated with using and communicating the outputs from such
models.
Data Capacity: This refers to the various requirements to integrate data, ranging
from the technical aspects of alignment, incongruous datasets, etc., to the more
operational aspects of finding, accessing, and ensuring the quality of data from
different sources.
Knowledge Capacity: Knowledge requirements for ILM take many forms. They
range from increasing the understanding among the various stakeholder groups of
a complex site-based problem (or the context for the overall situation) to the need
for mechanisms and skill sets to address the various accessibility, knowledge, and
communication needs.
Engagement Capacity: Some formal mechanism, process, or site is required to
enable the exchange of knowledge (and information) among the various
stakeholders in ILM. This might take any of a number of forms, such as
workshops, e-mail exchanges, meetings, or facilitated interactions. The goal is to
provide the appropriate level of interaction and exchange among stakeholders to
define problems, clarify goals, identify potential conflicts, and to enable the
uptake of information across existing barriers (i.e. sectoral, disciplinary,
jurisdictional, etc.).
Marketing and Funding: Marketing refers to communicating and advancing the
importance of ILM approaches, notably their ability to reduce the duplication of
effort and to expand the scope to evaluate interactive and cumulative effects in
environmental assessment processes, etc. There is a need for better awareness
and understanding of ILM approaches among EA practitioners and other decision-
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