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…
A waste lexicon to negotiate extended producer responsibility in free trade agreements (2020)
Jorge M. Torrente-Velásquez, Maddalena Ripa, Rosaria Chifari, Sandra Bukkens, Mario Giampietro, A waste lexicon to negotiate extended producer responsibility in free trade agreements, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Volume 156, 2020https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104711 Abstract: Developing economies largely rely on imported consumer goods from the manufacturing industries of industrialized economies through free-trade agreements. After…
Adaptive planning and adaptive pathways
By Marjolijn Haasnoot The adaptation pathways approach to decision making under deep uncertainty emerged almost 15 years ago. The approach explores alternative sequences of decisions (adaptation pathways) for multiple futures and illuminates the path dependency of alternative strategies. The Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways method provides stepwise guidance to support the…
Human dimensions of urban water resilience: Perspectives from Cape Town, Kingston upon Hull, Mexico City and Miami (2020)
Alexa Bruce, Casey Brown, Pilar Avello, George Beane, James Bristow, Louise Ellis, Sophie Fisher, Sarah St. George Freeman, Alejandro Jiménez, James Leten, Nathanial Matthews, Oriana Romano, Iñigo Ruiz-Apilanez, Panchali Saikia, Martin Shouler, Paul Simkins, Human dimensions of urban water resilience: Perspectives from Cape Town, Kingston upon Hull, Mexico City and…