Analysis for Decision Making in US Water Resources Management; Washington, DC; September 13th-14th, 2004.

对水资源决策过程的研究往往几乎完全是组织设计或过程导向，并假设现有的科学可以很好地满足决策者的信息需求。改进分析工具的研究很少注意到可能使用这些工具的决策环境，本项目是一个讲习班（和委托编写的论文），以评估用于水资源领域决策的分析方法。多学科活动的目的是探索基本的范式问题，以确定与水资源领域的决策方法和科学探究相关的研究需求。

The research on water resources decision processes tends to be almost exclusively organizational design or process oriented and assumes that the information needs to decision makers can be served well by the existing science. Research to refine analytical tools has paid little heed to the decision-making environment in which those tools might be used.This project is a workshop (and commissioned papers) to assess analytical methods used to make decisions in the realm of water resources. The purpose of the multi-disciplinary activity is to explore basic paradigmatic questions to identify research needs related to decision methods and scientific inquiry in the water resources area.