Project Summary

The limited nature of our shared resources drives the need for assistance to effectively coordinate demand, allocation, and efficient use of water, energy, and land within communities. This reality, compounded by threatened resource quality, requires coordination among stakeholders whose livelihoods depend on food and energy production and availability of water for consumptive and non- consumptive uses; these include: farmers, tribes, water managers, dam operators, industries, recreationalists, government agencies, and environmentalists. InterACTWEL, a secure and intelligent computer-aided decision support tool, empowers such actors to collaborate and coordinate management of natural resources over time. This highly flexible and navigable tool can be utilized in times of environmental disturbance or during implementation of new agricultural or environmental policies. Its intuitive interface examines impacts to goals, operations, and livelihoods for smarter natural resource management (i.e. adaptive management). To do so, this tool contains advanced scientific models and interactive optimization algorithms that allow individual actors to identify potential adaptation strategies while learning how those strategies affect other actors.