Many objective robust decision making for complex environmental systems undergoing change

JR Kasprzyk, S Nataraj, PM Reed… - Environmental Modelling & …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper introduces many objective robust decision making (MORDM). MORDM combines
concepts and methods from many objective evolutionary optimization and robust decision …

Thinking inside the box: A participatory, computer-assisted approach to scenario discovery

BP Bryant, RJ Lempert - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2010 - Elsevier
Scenarios provide a commonly used and intuitively appealing means to communicate and
characterize uncertainty in many decision support applications, but can fall short of their …

Robust climate policies under uncertainty: A comparison of robust decision making and info‐gap methods

JW Hall, RJ Lempert, K Keller… - Risk Analysis: An …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This study compares two widely used approaches for robustness analysis of decision
problems: the info‐gap method originally developed by Ben‐Haim and the robust decision …

Climate prediction: a limit to adaptation

S Dessai, M Hulme, R Lempert… - Adapting to climate …, 2009 - books.google.com
Projections of future climate and its impacts on society and the environment have been
crucial for the emergence of climate change as a global problem for public policy and …

A Delphi-based risk analysis—Identifying and assessing future challenges for supply chain security in a multi-stakeholder environment

C Markmann, IL Darkow, H Von Der Gracht - … Forecasting and Social …, 2013 - Elsevier
Identifying and assessing the potential impact and likelihood of future events, which might
evolve into risks, are a prerequisite to identify future security challenges. In particular, risks …

Agreeing on robust decisions: new processes for decision making under deep uncertainty

N Kalra, S Hallegatte, R Lempert, C Brown… - World Bank Policy …, 2014 - papers.ssrn.com
Investment decision making is already difficult for any diverse group of actors with different
priorities and views. But the presence of deep uncertainties linked to climate change and …

Many-objective robust decision making for managing an ecosystem with a deeply uncertain threshold response

R Singh, PM Reed, K Keller - Ecology and Society, 2015 - JSTOR
Managing ecosystems with deeply uncertain threshold responses and multiple decision
makers poses nontrivial decision analytical challenges. The problem is imbued with deep …

Scenarios that illuminate vulnerabilities and robust responses

R Lempert - Climatic change, 2013 - Springer
Scenarios exist so that decision makers and those who provide them with information can
make statements about the future that claim less confidence than do predictions, projections …

Synthetic drought scenario generation to support bottom-up water supply vulnerability assessments

JD Herman, HB Zeff, JR Lamontagne… - Journal of Water …, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
Exploratory simulation allows analysts to discover scenarios in which existing or planned
water supplies may fail to meet stakeholder objectives. These robustness assessments rely …

Decision science can help address the challenges of long‐term planning in the Colorado River Basin

R Smith, E Zagona, J Kasprzyk… - JAWRA Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract “Deep uncertainty” is a term that describes planning contexts in which it is
impossible to determine the likelihood of any given set of future conditions, there are …