Eco-decisional well-being networks as a tool for community decision support.

ABSTRACT: Community decision making based on the sustainability of ecosystem services is an integrated process that involves multiple complex decisions and is greatly aided by an understanding of how those decisions are interrelated. The interrelatedness of decisions can be understood and even measured based on connections between actions and services and influence of services on domains of human well-being. These connections can be formed into a network structure so that quantifiable properties of networks can be applied to understanding decision impacts. We developed an eco-decisional network based on weighted social-ecological networks as a tool for integrated decision making based on ecosystem services and human well-being. Nodes are actions, services, or domains of human well-being and they are

SUBMITTER: Fulford RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11457163 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature