Issues of scale and scope in bio-physical modelling for natural resource management decision making in New South Wales

摘要: Natural resource management decision making by Catchment Management Authorities in NSW is being aided a project involving bio-physical modelling and the development of an alternative decision-making framework. The objective process to generate predictions environmental or natural outcomes rather than outputs. These can then be used investment framework help priority setting making. Questions that arise include those relating scale scope. Scale issues how address landscape impacts particular (or series local) on-ground works proposals. Scope assessment multiple-attribute responses changes. In multi-disciplinary context challenge translate this information into units adapted decision-support Existing decisions are often based on scoring weighting improvements using benefits index, however other economic frameworks possible. We discuss important for these questions