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Support for Puget Sound Restoration Planning with DASEES and Structured Decision-Making
Citation:
Dyson, B. AND Tim Canfield. Support for Puget Sound Restoration Planning with DASEES and Structured Decision-Making. National Estuary Program–ORD Webinar Series, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 14, 2020.
Impact/Purpose:
This presentation provides information to the National Estuary Program, Region 10, and Puget Sound partners on the utility of the ORD/CESER decision analysis tool DASEES in enhancing stakeholder-technical expert collaboration resulting in better restoration consequence assessment and decision-making.
Description:
Environmental restoration planning and decision-making is an exercise in evaluating the consequences of proposed options against inter-related socio-ecological, economic, and regulatory objectives, often under uncertainty. The preceding webinar described a science-governance partnership for Puget Sound providing models and expertise to help planners visualize consequences of modeled scenarios. The structured decision-making application DASEES (Decision Analysis for a Sustainable Environment, Economy, and Society) can aid interaction among Puget Sound decision-makers and technical experts supporting identification and use of models for consequence assessments with desired decision-maker measures. Modeled consequences may then be utilized by DASEES to inform a multi-objective evaluation and trade-off analysis of restoration options. DASEES supports decision-makers needs with two project types: prioritization of pre-determined options with minimal uncertainty and the creation and evaluation of management scenarios, responsive to decision-specific needs, and often where uncertainty is a concern. A brief overview of the steps involved in developing each project type is provided.