Using an international dataset compiled from 121 sites in 87 marine protected areas (MPAs) globally (Edgar et al., 2014), I assessed how various configurations of design and management conditions affected MPA ecological performance, measured in terms of fish species richness and biomass. The set-theoretic approach used Boolean algebra to identify pathways that combined up to five 'NEOLI' ( No-t...

This paper presents the development up to date of a computer framework for integrating LCE methods and tools aimed at supporting ecological and economical decision making of product chains in a collaborative way. In particular, this paper proposes an approach to assist engineers and other decision makers in finding models that can be assembled into combined process that satisfy the product requ...

in conventional dea models, decision making units (dmus) are generally assumed as a black-box while the performance of decision making sub-units (dmsus) and their importance play crucial roles in  analyzing the performance of systems which have internal processes. the present paper introduces an ideal network which have efficient processes and next purposes a new approach for evaluating importa...

When travelling in groups, animals frequently have to make decisions on the direction of travel. These decisions can be based on consensus, when all individuals take part in the decision (i.e. democratic decision; social information), or leadership, when one member or a minority of members make the decision (i.e. despotic decision; personal information). Here we investigated whether decision-ma...

A Workshop to develop a “Decision Framework for Seismic Survey Referrals” held in March 2003 produced an inventory of ecological factors that DFO should consider when dealing with referrals for seismic surveys in Canadian waters. The workshop also discussed the sources of uncertainty about effects of seismic sounds on those ecological factors, and ways that the uncertainty could be presented in...

Prevention researchers have found that drinking in different contexts is related to different alcohol problems. Where and with whom people drink affects the types of alcohol-related problems they experience. Consequently, identifying those contexts that result in the greatest number of problems provides a novel opportunity to target new prevention efforts aimed at those contexts. However, ident...

In this paper we compare 10 established frameworks for analyzing social-ecological systems. We limited ourselves to frameworks that were explicitly designed to be used by a wider community of researchers and practitioners. Although all these frameworks seem to have emerged from the need for concepts that permit structured, interdisciplinary reasoning about complex problems in social-ecological ...