Decisions
The Environmental Decision Making Cluster of the ESIP Federation
Telecons
- Next telecon: Wednesday, February 24, 3pm EST
- Dial: 800-508-7631
- Access Code: *1297219*
- Agenda:
- Discuss Cluster Goals/focus for 2010.
- Decision Types
- Follow up on Metrics Discussion from Winter Meeting
- Plan Activities for the ESIP Summer Meeting, July 20-23, Knoxville, TN
- Minutes of past telecons/meetings
Cluster E-mail List
Winter 2010 ESIP Meeting (Jan 5-7, Washington, DC)
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Resources
Upcoming Meetings
Past Meetings
- Fall 2009 AGU Environmental Decision Making session - Two sessions on Wed Dec 16 (Posters: IN31A morning, Oral: IN34A 4-6pm)
- Summer 2009 ESIP Environmental Decision Making Workshop
- Symposium on Scientific Data for Evidence Based Policy and Decision Making, Sept 24
End Users and Decision Makers
- EPA
- Regional (state and local) regulators
- Environmental Justice Community
- World Bank
- Homeland Security
Use Cases and Success Stories
- coming soon
Decision Support Tools:
- coming soon
Funding Opportunities (current):
Funding Awards (past):
Web sites:
- NCAR Societal Impacts Program
- NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA)
- NOAA Economics Web Site
- CIRUN (Climate Information Responding to Users Needs - U. Maryland)
- IPCC
- Spatial Decision Support Knowledge Portal
Articles, Books, reports:
- The Emerging Science of Environmental Applications (Dozier and Gail)
- Uses and limitations of observations and data in decision support for selected sectors and regions
- Unscientific America - a quick and interesting read about barriers to communicating and using science information
About the Cluster
An important end use for Earth observational data is to support better informed decisions and policies in the commercial and public sectors. Observations (both real-time and historical) play an important role in reducing the uncertainty inherent in environmental-related decisions. Scientific models provide further value in predicting future states and scenarios, such as those associated with increased greenhouse gas emissions. This Cluster addresses topics such as:
- the economic value of Earth science data in decision settings;
- data requirements for environmental decisions, policies, and IPCC;
- decision making under deep environmental uncertainty;
- collaborative environments for assessing scenarios and consequences of decisions involving multiple stakeholders;
- case studies in environmental decision-making;
- integrated physical-economic models;
- perceptions of long-term climatic uncertainty;
- tools, services, models, and associated standards for data-driven decision support.
Interim Chair- Rob Raskin
