Towards a comprehensive uncertainty assessment in environmental research and decision support

Decision support for local environmental impact assessment

Sustainability has become a key concern for consumers and industry. However, coming to understand its implications in the context of daily life can be difficult. It may be hard to come to terms with the idea that traditional activities present environmental risks and may lead to real emergencies, manifested differently depending on local conditions. Everyone will be asked to do more but the mov...

Knowledge - Based Decision Support for Environmental Assessment

—EMDS is a knowledge-based decision support system for the design and conduct of ecological assessments at any geographic scale. ArcView provides the primary system interface to the EMDS system. The NetWeaver development system incorporated into EMDS provides a knowledge base development environment in which an assessment team assembles a knowledge base that describes the logical relations (dep...

Comprehensive Environmental Assessment: A Meta-Assessment Approach

With growing calls for changes in the field of risk assessment, improved systematic approaches for addressing environmental issues with greater transparency and stakeholder engagement are needed to ensure sustainable trade-offs. Here we describe the comprehensive environmental assessment (CEA) approach as a holistic way to manage complex information and to structure input from diverse stakehold...

Validation and Uncertainty in Analysis Decision Support

Logic-based decision support for strategic environmental assessment

Strategic Environmental Assessment is a procedure aimed at introducing systematic assessment of the environmental effects of plans and programs. This procedure is based on the so called coaxial matrices that define dependencies between plan activities (infrastructures, plants, resource extractions, buildings, etc.) and positive and negative environmental impacts, and dependencies between these ...