VSM Subsystems: Water Governance and Flow Data for Lake of Palmas River Basin

Juliana Mariano Alves's dataset combines Water Flow Diagrams and Viable System Model diagnostics for the Lake of Palmas River Basin. The data, stored in a 9.5 KB XLS file, was compiled from reports, utility managers, a SWAT+ hydrological model, document reviews, and stakeholder interviews. Findings were reviewed in a participatory co-creation workshop.

Use Cases

• Diagnose governance gaps across organizational levels based on VSM structural and functional analysis.
• Visualize seasonal water balances and sectoral consumption based on Water Flow Diagram data.
• Identify conflicts of interest and potential mitigation measures based on participatory stakeholder review.
• Assess the gap between regulated water allocation and actual abstraction based on combined physical and regulatory data.

Strengths

• Data integrates physical water flow modeling with governance diagnostics from a novel methodological framework.
• Findings were validated through a participatory co-creation workshop involving stakeholders from multiple sectors.
• Dataset is shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Dataset is very small at 9.5 KB, indicating limited scope and detail.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Combined data from reports, utility managers, SWAT+ hydrological model, document review, and stakeholder interviews.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 17:31:59; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Lake of Palmas River Basin