Insights for developing effective decision support tools for environmental sustainability
Abstract
Despite the increasing number of decision support tools (DSTs) intended to inform sustainability decision-making, recent evidence suggests they may not be reaching stakeholders who need them most and are of varying content and quality. One way to enhance their use and quality is to apply a framework to evaluate a tool during its development and deployment. Here we adapt Matheson's (2005) "decision quality framework" to evaluate the planning process and Planning Tool used to develop Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan to understand why this constellation of decision support activities—the ecosystem—worked especially well. We conclude with thoughts on the transferability of effective DST ecosystems to other situations in the context of environmental decision-making, and offer key considerations for DST developers to best support meaningful integration into planning and policy realms.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMPA51B..09W
- Keywords:
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- 6319 Institutions;
- POLICY SCIENCES;
- 6610 Funding;
- PUBLIC ISSUES;
- 6620 Science policy;
- PUBLIC ISSUES