Using structured decision making to guide habitat restoration for butterflies: a case study of Oregon silverspots

Doll, Cassandra; Converse, Sarah J.; Edwards, Collin B.; Schultz, Cheryl B.

doi:10.1007/s10841-022-00379-2

“…For example, there have been applications of decision analysis to decisions related to ACCEPTED Version of Robinson, K.F., Baker, E., Ewing, E., Hemming, V., Grant et al 2017, Doll et al 2022. Future work could focus on finding ways to implement decision analysis as a framework for sustainability to the broader community of decision makers and researchers focused on these goals.…”

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Decision Analysis to Advance Environmental Sustainability

Robinson,

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Ewing

et al. 2024

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Decision analysis provides a robust framework for complex decisions related to environmental sustainability and conservation, including for energy and water, fisheries and wildlife management, agriculture, and climate change response. The complexities of these problems stem from their large scope and scale, which leads to multiple decision makers, stakeholders, rightsholders, and other entities with potentially competing objectives. These problems often are time limited (e.g., urgent action is required to prevent species’ extinction), involve management interventions over long time scales and delayed responses to management (deep uncertainty), and are impeded by limited resources (funding, capacity, etc.). In this Special Issue on “Decision Analysis to Advance Environmental Sustainability,” we present five case studies of applications of decision analysis to complex problems in environmental sustainability and conservation. These case studies incorporate multiple objectives related to ecological and environmental sustainability, economic and social concerns, and logistics of implementation. They showcase a wide range of tools and applications to these problems. We also provide suggestions for new avenues of research and application of decision analysis to problems of environmental sustainability and conservation, including how to incorporate other decision-making tools into decision analysis processes, how to broaden the reach of decision analysis to other sustainability problems, how to incorporate more stakeholders and rightsholders into the decision process, the potential to incorporate new technology into these processes, identifying more creative alternatives, how to secure more funding, ways to move from decision to action, and how to move beyond status quo to make big transitions necessary to achieve sustainability.

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Structured decision making remains underused in ecological restoration despite opportunities

Piczak,

Robichaud,

Morrison

et al. 2023

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Decision Analysis to Advance Environmental Sustainability

Robinson,

Baker,

Ewing

et al. 2023

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Decision analysis provides a robust framework for complex decisions related to environmental sustainability and conservation, including for energy and water, fisheries and wildlife management, agriculture, and climate change response. The complexities of these problems stem from their large scope and scale, which leads to multiple decision makers, stakeholders, rightsholders, and other entities with potentially competing objectives. These problems often are time limited (e.g., urgent action is required to prevent species’ extinction), involve management interventions over long time scales and delayed responses to management (deep uncertainty), and are impeded by limited resources (funding, capacity, etc.). In this Special Issue on “Decision Analysis to Advance Environmental Sustainability,” we present five case studies of applications of decision analysis to complex problems in environmental sustainability and conservation. These case studies incorporate multiple objectives related to ecological and environmental sustainability, economic and social concerns, and logistics of implementation. They showcase a wide range of tools and applications to these problems. We also provide suggestions for new avenues of research and application of decision analysis to problems of environmental sustainability and conservation, including how to incorporate other decision-making tools into decision analysis processes, how to broaden the reach of decision analysis to other sustainability problems, how to incorporate more stakeholders and rightsholders into the decision process, the potential to incorporate new technology into these processes, identifying more creative alternatives, how to secure more funding, ways to move from decision to action, and how to move beyond status quo to make big transitions necessary to achieve sustainability.

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Using structured decision making to guide habitat restoration for butterflies: a case study of Oregon silverspots

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Decision Analysis to Advance Environmental Sustainability

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Structured decision making remains underused in ecological restoration despite opportunities

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