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DASEES: A Tripartite Decision Analysis Framework to Achieve Sustainable Environment, Economy & Society Growth and Management Goals
Citation:
Canfield, T., T. Stockton, B. Dyson, M. Ten Brink, K. Black, P. Bradley, S. Yee, W. Fisher, J. Carriger, AND A. Vega. DASEES: A Tripartite Decision Analysis Framework to Achieve Sustainable Environment, Economy & Society Growth and Management Goals. Presented at 6th SETAC World Congress 2012, May 20 - 24, 2012.
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Poster for the 6th SETAC World Congress 2012, Berlin, Germany, May 20-24, 2012.
Description:
Many of Societies management and growth decisions are often made without a balanced consideration of pertinent factors from environmental, economic and societal perspectives. All three of these areas are key players in many of the decisions facing societies as they strive to operate in a more sustainable manner. Typically decisions are made either considering one or two of these perspectives while ignoring the third, or the weighting for one or two of the perspectives vastly outweigh the second or third consideration. Far too frequently the process either ignores or does not adequately factor in consideration of the roles that ecosystem services play in a sustainable system. Most decision-makers do not currently have access to useful or usable methods and approaches when they are presented with economic and social welfare choices that will have significant ecosystem impacts. The goal of the USEPA Ecosystem Services Research Program (ESRP) Decision Support Framework (DSF) Team is to help provide that access by identifying and developing effective and user-friendly decision methods and approaches that empower decision-makers to explicitly, routinely, and substantively incorporate ecosystem services into their decision-making process. The goal of this framework is to provide decision-makers with an understanding of potential outcomes and effects of their planned decisions on economic, social, and ecological systems in order to promote more balanced and sustainable solutions. To this end the ESRP DSF team is developing an open-source, web-based decision analysis framework called DASEES: Decision Analysis for a Sustainable Environment, Economy and Society. DASEES integrates guidance and decision support tools to implement a five step iterative Bayesian decision process designed to: 1 - Understand the decision context; 2 - Define Objectives; 3 - Develop Options; 4 - Evaluate Options; 5 - Take Action. DASEES will be developed with stakeholder and decision-maker inpu