Structured decision making
Edited by: Paul R. Krausman and James W. III Cain
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Abstract
Wildlife management is a decision-focused discipline. It needs to integrate traditional wildlife science and social science to identify actions that are most likely to achieve the array of desires society has surrounding wildlife populations. Decision science, a vast field with roots in economics, operations research, and psychology, offers a rich set of tools to help wildlife managers frame, decompose, analyze, and synthesize their decisions. The nature of wildlife management as a decision science has been recognized since the inception of the field, but formal methods of decision analysis have been underused. There is tremendous potential for wildlife management to grow further through the use of formal decision analysis. First, the wildlife science and human dimensions of wildlife disciplines can be readily integrated. Second, decisions can become more efficient. Third, decisions makers can communicate more clearly with stakeholders and the public. Fourth, good, intuitive wildlife managers, by explicitly examining how they make decisions, can translate their art into a science that is readily used by the next generation.
Suggested Citation
Runge, M.C., Grand, J.B., Mitchell, M.S., 2013, Structured decision making, chap. 5 of Wildlife management and conservation: Contemporary principles and practices, p. 51-73.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Structured decision making |
| Chapter | 5 |
| Year Published | 2013 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Publisher location | Baltimore, MD |
| Contributing office(s) | Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
| Description | 23 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Wildlife management and conservation: Contemporary principles and practices |
| First page | 51 |
| Last page | 73 |