Evaluation of environmental decision and information support tools: from adoption to outcome
Read Dr Brian McIntosh's paper and presentation from MODSIM2011 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Sustaining our Future: understanding and living with uncertainty.
The value of environmental decision and information support tools (DISTs) and technologies is located in the impacts that the use of such technologies have on the behaviour of individuals and organisations, and consequently on our collective ability to negotiate the difficult interfaces between human social and economic activity, and environmental impact. There are significant, but as yet insufficiently exploited opportunities for improving the value of these tools and technologies through the use of assessment and evaluation practices.
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