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Ann Bostrom
PB AF 597
Seattle Campus
Examines how science contributes to decisions that involve the natural environment; how science and scientists help frame debates and decisions; how scientific findings are incorporated into decision-making processes; how scientists and non-scientists deal with uncertainty about scientific questions.
Class description
• how science contributes to decisions that involve the natural environment; • how science and scientists help frame debates and decisions; • how scientific findings are incorporated into decision-making processes; and • how scientists and non-scientists deal with uncertainty about scientific questions.
Student learning goals
Develop a critical understanding of the role of science in environmental decisions, as well as the limits of analysis.
Know how to apply basic decision analysis to environmental decisions, including identifying issues of scale and scope, and addressing tradeoffs, risk and uncertainties
Build and solve decision trees manually and with TreePlan, and to describe uncertainty and variability probabilistically, based on empirical measurement, models, and expert judgment.
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