The Environmental Decisions Group (EDG) and Decision Point magazine are all about smart science for wise decisions – issues 58 and 59 of Decision Point magazine are now available.
An understanding of cause and effect is central to decision-making in environmental management. It matters most where decisions may be subject to challenge or where restoration budgets are tight and managers are looking for the best value. The new Eco Evidence software from the eWater CRC facilitates causal assessment for environmental management, and offers a mechanism to make best use of the extensive pool of published research. You can search and access a reusable knowledge bank of atomised pieces of evidence, relevant to specific cause-effect associations, extracted from scientific papers. Eco Evidence helps answer cause-effect questions, make assessments, plan for restorations, and carry out critical reviews on a specific topic of interest.
What happens when you consider multiple threats on our declining biodiversity together? New research is suggesting the devil is in the synergy. Biodiversity is being crucified by habitat loss and there are dire predictions of the impacts from climate change. But what is the result when you look at climate change and habitat loss together? Find out in the March issue of Decision Point where you’ll find an excellent range of stories.
In Decision Point issue 56, Environmental Decisions Group (EDG) scientists examine the evidence on what saved houses in the 2009 Black Saturday fires in Victoria. Does prescribed burning save homes and lives? And should this be a general prescription for how we manage landscapes? In issue 56 you’ll find the following stories:
Decision Point is a downloadable monthly magazine from the Centre of Excellence Environmental Decisions (CEED). The November issue contains a timely story on good decision making under climate change. It’s one of the first studies of its kind that undertakes ecological optimisation of investments in managing plant communities that are expected to be lost under climate change. There are also articles on sufficiency (as opposed to efficiency), using INFFER to make better decisions, conservation theory, and publishing persistence.
Decision Point is the downloadable monthly magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group (EDG). It presents news and views on environmental decision making, biodiversity, conservation planning and monitoring. In the current (October 2011) issue of Decision Point you’ll find the following stories:
Decision Point is the Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED) monthly magazine presenting articles, views and ideas on environmental decision making, biodiversity, conservation planning and monitoring. Decision Point Issue 47 (March 2011) is now available, and includes articles on how to build a truly great biodiversity legacy, the importance of plant demography and why we should beware of those charismatic fast growers, using process models to guide investment in the catchments in the management of native vegetation, prioritising global investment using climatic stability, and how putting smiley faces on energy bills for good performance pays big dividends.
This is the last issue of Decision Point under the auspices of the Applied Environmental Decision Analysis hub (AEDA) – a research group that finishes at the end of 2010. However Decision Point will be back in 2011 under the auspices of ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED). What Decision Point will look like is still to be decided – you can help by undertaking the Decision Point survey. You can download the final AEDA edition of Decision Point at AEDA News. Read the rest of this entry »