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EPA Growing DASEES (Decision Analysis For A Sustainable Environment, Economy & Society) - To Aid In Making Decisions On Complex Environmental Issues
Citation:
YEARDLEY JR, R. B., B. DYSON, AND M. TENBRINK. EPA Growing DASEES (Decision Analysis For A Sustainable Environment, Economy & Society) - To Aid In Making Decisions On Complex Environmental Issues. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/F-11/023, 2011.
Impact/Purpose:
DASEES creates a formal framework so the same common sense decision-making principles that we use in our daily lives, can be applied to more complex environmental issues.
Description:
Having a framework and tools to help sort through complicated environmental issues in an objective way would be useful to communities and risk managers, and all the stakeholders affected by these issues. This is one need that DASEES (Decision Analysis for a Sustainable Environment, Economy, & Society) can help fill. DASEES is an open-source, web-based decision analysis framework, being developed by an integrated trans-disciplinary research team of EPA, university, and private company researchers. It focuses on sustainable systems and communities. It is flexible but rigorous, transparent and auditable, and adapts to new information. The last part of the DASEES acronym , 'EES' acknowledges that this approach takes into account the environmental, economic, and societal aspects of what have traditionally been defined as just environmental issues. This formalized common sense is referred to in technical circles as "multi-attribute decision analysis". These attributes include the many stakeholders that are affected by decisions on environmental issues. Other attributes include the many physical, chemical, and biological aspects of ecosystems. A major strength of this approach is that it is inclusive and incorporates input from many stakeholders.