By Tania Lopez-Cantu Throughout progress in scientific discovery and technological advancement, engineers and scientists have learned how to approach modeling of a specific physical phenomena bounded by a set of unknown but well-defined rules or choosing the best alternative out of a constrained set of possible alternatives. Under these and…
Navigating Deeply Uncertain Tradeoffs in Harvested Predator-Prey Systems (2020)
Hadjimichael, Antonia; Reed, Patrick M; Quinn, Julianne D. Complexity, 2020https://www.hindawi.com/journals/complexity/2020/4170453/ Abstract: Multiple fisheries have collapsed as a result of overfishing and strong limitations in our knowledge of system conditions and consequential ecological interactions. Fishery managers need to establish harvesting strategies that balance economic benefits against ecological objectives, including avoiding unintended…
Mainstreaming resilience science, approaches, and tools in the water resources sector
By Homero Paltan and Diego Juan Rodriguez Over the last few years, Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) methodologies and approaches have gained popularity to identify and address uncertainties which may affect the water sector. These uncertainties have ranged from climate change, demographic and demand shifts, or situations where stakeholders…
DMDU applications to energy and infrastructure planning
By Steven Popper The annual meeting of the Society for Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) will feature two panels on applications to energy and infrastructure planning. This is not surprising. These are in many ways the classic sectors in which DMDU concepts and methods first arose. Therefore, these presentations…
The governance challenge of implementing long-term sustainability objectives with present-day investment decisions
Wieke D. Pot, The governance challenge of implementing long-term sustainability objectives with present-day investment decisions,Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 280, Part 2, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124475 Abstract: Grand sustainability challenges and international sustainability agreements require national and local governments to further incorporate sustainability as part of their present-day investments in infrastructure. To…
From elite folk science to the policy legend of the circular economy (2020)
Mario Giampietro, Silvio O. Funtowicz, From elite folk science to the policy legend of the circular economy, Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 109, 2020, Pages 64-72https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.04.012 Abstract: This paper explores the implications of the widespread success of the term circular economy in the institutional and public debate. The concept of…
Humanitarian access, interrupted: dynamic near real-time network analytics and mapping for reaching communities in disaster-affected countries (2020)
Warnier, M., Alkema, V., Comes, T. et al. Humanitarian access, interrupted: dynamic near real-time network analytics and mapping for reaching communities in disaster-affected countries. OR Spectrum 42, 815–834 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00291-020-00582-0 Abstract:In the immediate aftermath of a disaster, local and international aid organisations deploy to deliver life-saving aid to the affected population. Yet pre-disaster road maps…
Measuring social resilience: Trade-offs, challenges and opportunities for indicator models in transforming societies (2020)
Samantha Copeland, Tina Comes, Sylvia Bach, Michael Nagenborg, Yannic Schulte, Neelke Doorn, Measuring social resilience: Trade-offs, challenges and opportunities for indicator models in transforming societies,International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 51, 2020https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101799 Abstract: More than any other facet of resilience, social resilience raises the inherent tension within the concept…
DMDU and Critical Infrastructure Systems
By Sibel Eker Infrastructures are critical for the smooth functioning of socioeconomic systems on Earth – “daily life” as we know it. Whether in urban or rural areas, or in the developed or developing world, our ordinary activities — from a phone call to food deliveries, from switching on the…
Resilience by design in Mexico City: A participatory human-hydrologic systems approach (2020)
Sarah St. George Freeman, Casey Brown, Hector Cañada, Veronica Martinez, Adriana Palma Nava, Patrick Ray, Diego Rodriguez, Andres Romo, Jacob Tracy, Eduardo Vázquez, Sungwook Wi, Frederick Boltz, Resilience by design in Mexico City: A participatory human-hydrologic systems approach,Water Security, Volume 9, 2020https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2019.100053 Abstract: Urban systems are embedded within and thereby…