Towards the integrated management of urban water systems: Conceptualizing integration and its uncertainties

Climate change and urbanization, as well as growing environmental and economic concerns, highlight the limitations of traditional wastewater practices and thereby challenge the management of urban water systems. Both in theory and in practice, it has been widely acknowledged that the challenges of the twenty-first century require solutions...

Exploratory modeling for analyzing coupled human-natural systems under uncertainty

Modeling is a crucial approach for understanding the past and exploring the future of coupled human-natural systems. However, uncertainty in various forms challenges inferences from modeling results. Model-based support for decision-making has increasingly adopted an emerging exploratory approach. This approach addresses uncertainty...

An integrated three-layered foresight framework

Purpose: The paper aims to present an integrated foresight framework and method to support decision-makers who are confronted with today’s complex and rapidly changing world. The method aims at reducing the degree of uncertainty by addressing the inertia or duration of unfolding trends and by placing individual trends in a broader context....

Open data for evidence-based decision-making: Data-driven government resulting in uncertainty and polarization

Over the last decade, more and more data are collected and opened. Governments actively stimulate the opening of data to increase citizen engagement to support policy-making processes. Evidence-based policy-making is the situation whereby decisions made are based on factual data. The common expectation is that releasing data will result in...

External uncertainty as a driver of structural change in real estate decision-factors: An explorative study

Research on the influence of political and economic uncertainty on the decision-factors for accommodation decision-making in corporate real estate management. Research showed that economic uncertainty, and not political uncertainty, did influence the decision criteria during the last decade. A shift can be seen from practical, costs and...

Training Senior-Managers for Cyber crisis: Designing a Simulation Game for Decision-making under Uncertainty

Crisis situations require critical decision making under high uncertainty and time pressure. These decisions can impact an organization internally and externally when remained unhandled. However, due to the rarity of crisis events, there is a lack of training on the job. A designed simulation game should offer a training methodology which takes...