Thresholds for Conservation and Management: Structured Decision Making as a Conceptual Framework

2014 ◽  
pp. 9-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Nichols ◽  
Mitchell J. Eaton ◽  
Julien Martin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Structured Decision Making ◽  
Conservation And Management

scholarly journals Structured decision making as a conceptual framework to identify thresholds for conservation and management

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 1079-1090 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Martin ◽  
Michael C. Runge ◽  
James D. Nichols ◽  
Bruce C. Lubow ◽  
William L. Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Structured Decision Making ◽  
Conservation And Management

scholarly journals Synthesis of Two Decades of US EPA’s Ecosystem Services Research to Inform Environmental, Community and Sustainability Decision Making

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8249
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Harwell ◽  
Chloe A. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Structured Decision Making ◽  
Decision Context ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Us Epa

A conceptual framework is helpful to understand what types of ecosystem services (ES) information is needed to support decision making. Principles of structured decision making are helpful for articulating how ES consideration can influence different elements in a given decision context resulting in changes to the environment, human health, and well-being. This article presents a holistic view of an ES framework, summarizing two decades of the US EPA’s ES research, including recent advances in final ES, those ES that provide benefits directly to people. Approximately 150 peer-reviewed publications, technical reports, and book chapters characterize a large ES research portfolio. In introducing framework elements and the suite of relevant US EPA research for each element, both challenges and opportunities are identified. Lessons from research to advance each of the final ES elements can be useful for identifying gaps and future science needs. Ultimately, the goal of this article is to help the reader develop an operational understanding of the final ES conceptual framework, an understanding of the state of science for a number of ES elements, and an introduction to some ES tools, models, and frameworks that may be of use in their case-study applications or decision-making contexts.

Collective decision-making and fission-fusion dynamics: a conceptual framework

Oikos ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 120 (11) ◽  
pp. 1608-1617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cédric Sueur ◽  
Andrew J. King ◽  
Larissa Conradt ◽  
Gerald Kerth ◽  
David Lusseau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Collective Decision ◽  
Collective Decision Making

A conceptual framework for wisdom-based decision-making process in audit profession

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoang To Loan Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Ethical Orientation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
External Auditors ◽  
Wise Decision ◽  
Knowledge Assimilation

PurposeWisdom is considered as crucial in decision-making in both management and auditing practice. This research aims to investigate the concept of wisdom in auditing, thereby empirically exploring the determinants of wisdom in audit decision-making and explaining inter-relations among these determinants.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs grounded theory methodology that is based on in-depth interviews with twenty-seven practicing auditors who are audit partners, managers, seniors and assistants of auditing firms. Guided by the grounded theory, data collection and data analyses were conducted simultaneously to look into the new insights of the research phenomenon. The coding process was constantly compared until the research's theoretical saturation is reached after four rounds. At the end of the research process, the study conducted a survey to confirm the proposed framework as well as examine the inter-relationships between the defined determinants.FindingsResults suggest developing a conceptual framework to interpret wisdom-based decision-making process in auditing. A wise process of audit decision-making is defined as an integrated exercise of multiple determinants including knowledge assimilation, judgmental ability and ethical orientation. The research also explains and examines the potential interrelationships among these determinants in the audit decision-making process.Practical implicationsWisdom is a valuable tacit ability for all external auditors. The development of wise decision-making abilities of auditors should be considered an integral part of multiple virtues including knowledge and judgmental and ethical aspects.Originality/valueThe contributions of this study are original and significant because it proposes a new approach to explain for the audit decision-making process and enhances better understandings of the concept of wisdom in auditing practices and its roles in audit decision-making.

The Impact of Conflict- Generating Techniques on Student Reactions and Decision Quality

1995 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
Granger Macy ◽  
Joan C. Neal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Decision Quality ◽  
Structured Decision Making ◽  
Constructive Conflict ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Student Reactions ◽  
Graduate Business Students ◽  
The Impact

This study examined the effectiveness of conflict-generating decision-making techniques in the college classroom. Utiliz ing constructive conflict in classroom exercises may affect decision-making quality and student reactions. This study of undergraduate and graduate business students found significant difference in both the quality of the decisions and in student reactions to the techniques. The findings and discussion indicate the potential for appropriate use of structured decision-making techniques in the classroom.

scholarly journals Novel EDAS++ method: Interval type criteria and extension to EDAS

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Anđelka Štilić
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
Structured Decision Making ◽  
Weighting Factors ◽  
Multicriteria Problems ◽  
Mutual Relations ◽  
Interval Type

Multicriteria problems belong to poorly structured decision-making problems as they take place in conditions of stochasticity (indeterminacy). This primarily refers to the number of criteria and the complexity of their mutual relations between which there may be complete opposition, as well as to the methodologically diverse space for determining preferences or weighting factors which significantly affect the decision-making results. The paper focuses on the introduction of new types of criteria: 1 - 4 interval type criteria and its implementation in EDAS + method of multicriteria analysis.

scholarly journals A risk assessment approach to ecological decision-making

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina K Himes Boor ◽  
Paul Wade
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Population Viability Analysis ◽  
Structured Decision Making ◽  
Full Characterization ◽  
Viability Analysis ◽  
Threatened And Endangered Species ◽  
Assessment Approach ◽  
The Face ◽  
Accurate Probability

The conservation and management of wild populations and ecosystems almost always involves making decisions in the face of uncertainty and risk. The application of science to the ecological decision-making process was something that the late Professor Daniel Goodman thought deeply about. In this paper we outline the three main principles that Dr. Goodman espoused for good practice when conducting analyses for ecological decision-making: 1) the results should be conditioned on all relevant data and information, 2) there must be a full characterization of all uncertainty, and it should be fully propagated into the result, and 3) doing so in the correct way will result in the calculation of an accurate probability distribution (conditioned on our understanding of the state of nature) that should be used directly for ecological decision-making. Dr. Goodman believed that in the context of threatened and endangered species management Population Viability Analysis (PVA), Bayesian statistics, and structured decision-making are the most logical tools to achieve the three principles. To illustrate the application of the principles and tools in a real management setting, we discuss a Bayesian PVA that Dr. Goodman produced for the endangered Steller sea lion. We conclude by discussing the practical and philosophical impediments that may limit the full realization of the three principles and we offer some suggested solutions.

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