Ron Smith Chloe Bellamy Michal Petr Who we are OPERAS project diagram

Knowledge & decision support Knowledge “familiarity, awareness or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or learning” Decision problem “a choice among a set of actions.” (Balint et al. 2011) “defined by the acts or options among which one must choose, the possible outcomes or consequences of these acts, and the contingencies or conditional probabilities that relate outcomes to acts.” (Tversky, Kahneman 1981)

Knowledge & decision support Types of decisions: At different management levels Individual and group Different stakes ? Ecosystem services

Knowledge & decision support Our aspirations Active group addressing the “real problems” Support exchange of ideas and events (e.g. workshops) Support creation and of working groups (e.g. agent- based modelling, Bayesian Belief Networks) Possible outputs: Identify and support collaboration opportunities Support knowledge exchange

Knowledge & decision support Discussion topics What types of ecosystem service information/knowledge do you use in your decision making? How can this information best be presented so that it is most useful to particular decision-makers? How can people’s values for different services be weighed and aggregated for decision-making? … any other key issues?