Making Climate Decisions

Making decisions to conserve species under climate change

Severe impacts on biodiversity are predicted to arise from climate change. These impacts may not be adequately addressed by conventional approaches to conservation. As a result, additional management actions are now being considered. However, there is currently limited guidance to help decision makers choose which set of actions (and in what order) is most appropriate for species that are consi...

Low Stream Flows: Making Decisions in an Uncertain Climate

Making Good Decisions Quickly

Several disciplines, including artificial intelligence, operations research and many others, study how to make good decisions. In this overview article, we argue that the key to making progress in our research area is to combine their ideas, which often requires serious technical advances to reconcile their different assumptions and methods in a way that results in synergy among them. To illust...

Making Mastitis Treatment Decisions

Therapeutic efficacy of mastitis can result in frustrating clinical outcomes, depending on the causative pathogen, the severity and duration of infection, and expectations of the dairy producer. In herds that have controlled contagious mastitis, costs incurred from clinical mastitis likely account for the largest proportion of total herd mastitis costs, and in some instances, a majority of thes...

Making Human Resource Decisions

Decision making is one of the most important recurring responsibilities facing managers in organizations. Choices are called for on a regular basis with important consequences. To make a decision, the manager must choose among ways to deal with problems confronting an organization. The choice among these alternatives often makes irrevocable commitments. Once a decision is made, resources have b...