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Decision Support Framework (DSF) For Evaluating Planned Land And Resource Use Decisions: Hypothetical Application Of The DSF To Address Nutrient Loads In The Florida Keys
Citation:
VEGA, A. M., T. J. CANFIELD, P. BRADLEY, A. Rehr, M. Small, T. Stockton, K. Black, AND W. S. FISHER. Decision Support Framework (DSF) For Evaluating Planned Land And Resource Use Decisions: Hypothetical Application Of The DSF To Address Nutrient Loads In The Florida Keys. Presented at ESRP Annual Meeting, Athens, GA, October 21, 2009.
Impact/Purpose:
This poster (in the form of a schematic) will provide information and methods to assist decision-makers to assess the benefits of ecosystem goods and services to human well-being for inclusion in management alternatives.
Description:
The mission of ORD's Ecosystme Services Research Program (ESRP) is to provide the information and methods needed by decision-makers to assess the benefits of ecosystem goods and services to human well-being for inclusion in management alternatives. The Decision Support Framework (DSF) team is one of 15 teams that comprise the program. The goal of the DSF team is to provide, by 2016, an analytical-deliberative DSF for land and resource use decision-makers at the local, state, tribal and regional scales. The ESRP DSF is a structured decision analysis framework with associated tools that will enable land and resource use decision-makers to make better informed decisions incorporating ecosystem services and desired environmental quality. The DSF will provide decision-makers an understanding of probable effects of their planned decisions on social, economic and ecological systems - thus enabling our planet to sustain society and nature. The poster contains a visual of the DSF in the form of a schematic.