by Laura Tuck and Julie Rozenberg, Sustainable Development Practice Group, World Bank Group We all face uncertainties. What if the train’s late? What if it rains? What if traffic is bad? What if there’s a shift in government before the project starts? Every day we’re hit by all the “what ifs”…
A Matlab toolbox for designing Multi-Objective Optimal Operations of water reservoir systems
M. Giuliani, , Y. Li, A. Cominola, S. Denaro, E. Mason, A. Castelletti. Water reservoir operations have great potential for contributing positively to the development of different socio-economic sectors as well as for reducing the vulnerabilities of water systems caused by changing hydroclimatic and anthropogenic forcing. This motivates the search…
Rules and Processes of the Society
The Leadership Team has drafted and discussed the Rules and Processes document for the Society. The document forms the basis of the operations of the Society and describes, amongst others, membership procedures, the responsibilities and duties of the Leadership Team and the election process. The procedure for adoption of the…
Report from Session B5 on “Managing Uncertainty” at the 8th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
by Joseph Guillaume At the iEMSs2016 conference in Toulouse, the session on Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty (see blog report) was accompanied by a more generic one on “Managing Uncertainty”, organised by Joseph Guillaume (Aalto University), Tony Jakeman (Australian National University), Holger Maier (The University of Adelaide), Jiri Nossent (Flanders…
Deep Uncertainty at the International Congress on Environmental Modeling and Software
by Rob Lempert and Jan Kwakkel, The 8th International Congress on Environmental Modeling and Software in Toulouse, France, on July 10-14, 2016, featured a track titled Advancing in Environmental Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty: Emerging Tools and Challenges. The track was co-organized by Jan Kwakkel (Delft University of Technology), Patrick…
EPSRC Decision Making Under Uncertainty – London Meeting
EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC and NERC are leading on behalf of all research councils a workshop which aims to initiate the building of a cross cutting multidisciplinary community focussed on decision making under uncertainty. The workshop will involve presentations by a number of key speakers in this area and will provide…