Ron Smith
Chloe Bellamy
Michal Petr
Who we are
OPERAS project diagram
Knowledge & decision support
• Knowledge
• “familiarity, awareness or understanding of someone or something,
such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired
through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or
learning”
• Decision problem
• “a choice among a set of actions.” (Balint et al. 2011)
• “defined by the acts or options among which one must choose,
the possible outcomes or consequences of these acts, and the
contingencies or conditional probabilities that relate outcomes to
acts.” (Tversky, Kahneman 1981)
Knowledge & decision support
• Types of decisions:
• At different management levels
• Individual and group
• Different stakes
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Ecosystem
services
Knowledge & decision support
• Our aspirations
• Active group addressing the “real problems”
• Support exchange of ideas and events (e.g.
workshops)
• Support creation and of working groups (e.g. agentbased modelling, Bayesian Belief Networks)
• Possible outputs:
• Identify and support collaboration opportunities
• Support knowledge exchange
Knowledge & decision support
Discussion topics
• What types of ecosystem service
information/knowledge do you use in your decision
making?
• How can this information best be presented so that
it is most useful to particular decision-makers?
• How can people’s values for different services be
weighed and aggregated for decision-making?
… any other key issues?