Public policy for family farming. Definition for better support

Group decision support for public policy planning

Decision support often focuses on substantive rationality (what to choose). The procedural rationality (how to choose) of the process of long-term strategic decision making is then often neglected. In strategic decision making, supporting the decision process is more important than supporting the search for an ‘‘optimal’’ solution to the problem, especially since for most policy problems a well...

Towards better support for family carers: a richer understanding.

Building public support for anti-obesity policy initiatives.

Solving the obesity crisis has less to do with post-partisanship and more to do with increasing public support for strong public policy initiatives that will make the healthy choice the easy choice. The government has an important role in mitigating the toxic food environment created by food manufacturers and restaurant chains. Progress to date has occurred on the state level. With greater publ...

Evaluating implicit visualization of uncertainty for public policy decision support

Decision makers increasingly rely on science to inform public policy decisionmaking. Although this integration of science and policy offers the potential to support more informed decisions, scientific results are often not provided in a manner usable to decision makers. When faced with highly uncertain conditions, such as climate change, communicating science in a usable manner becomes even mor...

Computational Support for Public Debate and Policy Justification

This paper investigates how computer support can be enlisted to help the Government collect and analyse public opinions regarding the justification of policies. To do this we show how a link can be established between two existing systems for eDemocracy: the first, an implemented online tool based upon a specific model of argument for gathering the public’s views about a particular topic; the s...