Negotiated Complexity: Framing Multi-Criteria Decision Support in Environmental Health Practice
Negotiated Complexity: Framing Multi-Criteria Decision Support in Environmental Health Practice作者机构：Faculty of applied economics University of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) Brussels Belgium&Faculty of applied economics University of Antwerp Antwerp Belgium SIA Dendermonde Belgium
出 版 物：《American Journal of Operations Research》 (美国运筹学期刊（英文）)
年 卷 期：2013年第3卷第1期
页 面：153-166页
学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学]
主 题：Negotiated Complexity Multi-Criteria Decision Support Environmental Health Analytical Deliberative Approach Diversity Tolerance Traditional-Alternative Paradigms
摘 要：The complexity we take into account when dealing with complex issues and the way we deal with that complexity is not given or self-evident, it is framed and negotiated. Based on two environmental health decision support case studies we address a set of key methodological choices, crucial in shaping the multi-criteria decision support and illuminate how they followed from transdisciplinary collaboration and negotiation: diversity tolerance, dealing with uncertainty and difference of opinion, weight of information and the epistemological divide between traditional closed and alternative open paradigms. The case studies exemplify the growing conviction amongst methodologists that, especially regarding complex issues, best methods do not exist as such: methods are chosen and tailored in practice and the quality to a large extent is dependent on the process in which methodological development is embedded. We hope to contribute to making explicit the importance of methodological decision making regarding environmental health complexity.
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