S. Matsubara ed., Decision Making for Strategic Agriculture

Strategic Decision-making in Irrigated Agriculture Using Sustainability–related Criteria

The use of indicators for sustainability evaluation is an important step towards operationalization of the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development. Many literatures on framework for sustainable water management consider any one dimension of sustainability. In this paper, the sustainability of an irrigation system is assessed from economic and environmental dimension. An optimizat...

Decision- Making and Agriculture

DSS for Strategic Decision Making

This chapter describes and analyses the experience of the Egyptian government in spreading the awareness of information technology and its use in managing socio-economic development through building multiple information handling and decision support systems in messy, turbulent and changing environments. The successes over the past ten years in developing, implementing and sustaining stateof-the...

Strategic Decision Making

This paper introduces a methodology for strategic intervention in collective aeclsion making. The methodology is based on (1) a decomposition of the problem into a few main controversial issues, (2) systematic interviews of subject area specialists to obtain a specification of the decision setting, consisting of a list of stakeholders with their capabilities, positions, and salience on each of ...

Complex systems models for strategic decision making

A number of simulation techniques may be applied to strategy and decision-making. In using such techniques it is important to understand the role of models, in the context of the wider decision-making process which is largely a communal and political process; the choice of a particular approach or technique depends not only on the type of decision being considered, but also on the stage of the ...