Digital Training Chair and Co-chair announcement The Society’s annual meeting, which includes a training day, is a valuable event for learning about applications of deep uncertainty planning and disseminating tips and tools for such studies. However, learning need not be limited to three days a year at one location. The…
DMDU Checklist ad hoc committee announcement
DMDU Checklist ad hoc committee announcement One of the Society’s goals is to be a source of guidance that can be widely accessed and understood by any entities that want to include deep uncertainty concepts in their activities. To that end, the leadership team has determined that one valuable product…
Risk, robustness and water resources management under uncertainty
Borgomeo, E. , Mortazavi‐Naeini, M. , Hall, J. W. and Guillod, B. P. (2018), Risk, Robustness and Water Resources Planning Under Uncertainty. Earth’s Future. . doi:10.1002/2017EF000730 Risk‐based water resources planning is based on the premise that water managers should invest up to the point where the marginal benefit of risk…
Systems Modelling Conference – University of New South Wales, Canberra Campus
The University of New South Wales, Canberra is running a one-day conference for the second year on the topic of systems thinking and systems modelling covering broad range of methods, in particular methods for modelling under uncertainty. The 2017 programme is available here and videos here. The 2018 conference will be…
Workshop in Strategic Foresight, Deep Uncertainty, and Leadership. May 15 – 17, 2018. Washington, D.C.
The Atlantic Council and Penn State’s College of Engineering invite you to a workshop event on Strategic Foresight, Deep Uncertainty and Leadership. The event includes an evening conversation with reception and a three-days workshop. Socioengineering Systems Innovation: Forces of Disruption and Leadership, an evening conversation and reception will be held…
Getting to grips with uncertainty across multiple scales at the 5th Annual Workshop on Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty
Today’s decision makers face conditions of fast-paced, transformative, and often surprising change. Decisions on issues such as climate change mitigation and adaptation, defense spending or avoiding the collapse of financial systems are all plagued by diverse and complex uncertainties. So how do we respond to this world of increasing uncertainty?…
Embracing Uncertainty for Better Decision-Making
by Laura Tuck and Julie Rozenberg, Sustainable Development Practice Group, World Bank Group We all face uncertainties. What if the train’s late? What if it rains? What if traffic is bad? What if there’s a shift in government before the project starts? Every day we’re hit by all the “what ifs”…
A Matlab toolbox for designing Multi-Objective Optimal Operations of water reservoir systems
M. Giuliani, , Y. Li, A. Cominola, S. Denaro, E. Mason, A. Castelletti. Water reservoir operations have great potential for contributing positively to the development of different socio-economic sectors as well as for reducing the vulnerabilities of water systems caused by changing hydroclimatic and anthropogenic forcing. This motivates the search…
Rules and Processes of the Society
The Leadership Team has drafted and discussed the Rules and Processes document for the Society. The document forms the basis of the operations of the Society and describes, amongst others, membership procedures, the responsibilities and duties of the Leadership Team and the election process. The procedure for adoption of the…
Report from Session B5 on “Managing Uncertainty” at the 8th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
by Joseph Guillaume At the iEMSs2016 conference in Toulouse, the session on Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty (see blog report) was accompanied by a more generic one on “Managing Uncertainty”, organised by Joseph Guillaume (Aalto University), Tony Jakeman (Australian National University), Holger Maier (The University of Adelaide), Jiri Nossent (Flanders…