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BC3 Seminars: “How decision analysis theory can be used for river management”

December 14, 2016 @ 12:00 am - 12:45 pm

Seminar Title:

How decision analysis theory can be used for river management

 

River assessment and management are challenges to scientists and practitioners alike. Rivers, being highly complex ecosystems, are difficult to characterize with adequate indicators and predicting outcomes of river management actions are, therefore, sophisticated and affected by large uncertainty. Moreover, many stakeholders with potentially diverging interests are involved or affected by river management decisions. Although different approaches to river assessment and management exist, there is a need for a concept that accounts for these difficulties. Decision analysis theory provides appropriate techniques for developing an integral river management concept. In this talk, I will explain the different elements of such a river management concept, i.e. objectives, results of river state assessment, potential management actions, and predictions of system response to management actions, and illustrate the details with different examples from Switzerland and New Zealand.

Lecturer:

Dr. Simone Langhans

Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany.

Details

Date:
December 14, 2016
Time:
12:00 am - 12:45 pm
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Venue

BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change
Sede Building 1, 1st floor, Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country
Leioa,Bizkaia48940Spain
Phone
+34 944 014 690
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