Representing causal knowledge in environmental policy interventions: Advantages and opportunities for qualitative influence diagram applications.

ABSTRACT: This article develops and explores a methodology for using qualitative influence diagrams in environmental policy and management to support decision-making efforts that minimize risk and increase resiliency. Influence diagrams are representations of the conditional aspects of a problem domain. Their graphical properties are useful for structuring causal knowledge relevant to policy interventions and can be used to enhance inference and inclusivity of multiple viewpoints. Qualitative components of influence diagrams are beneficial tools for identifying and examining the interactions among the critical variables in complex policy development and implementation. Policy interventions on social-environmental systems can be intuitively diagrammed for representing knowledge of critical relationsh

SUBMITTER: Carriger JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6193763 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature