Analysis for Decision Making in US Water Resources Management; Washington, DC; September 13th-14th, 2004.

Resources For The Future Inc, Washington DC

Investigators

Abstract

The research on water resources decision processes tends to be almost exclusively organizational design or process oriented and assumes that the information needs to decision makers can be served well by the existing science. Research to refine analytical tools has paid little heed to the decision-making environment in which those tools might be used. This project is a workshop (and commissioned papers) to assess analytical methods used to make decisions in the realm of water resources. The purpose of the multi-disciplinary activity is to explore basic paradigmatic questions to identify research needs related to decision methods and scientific inquiry in the water resources area.