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

关于水资源决策过程的研究几乎完全是以组织设计或过程为导向的，并假设现有的科学可以很好地为决策者提供所需的信息。改进分析工具的研究几乎没有注意到可能使用这些工具的决策环境。这个项目是一个研讨会(和委托发表的论文)，评估在水资源领域做出决策所使用的分析方法。多学科活动的目的是探索基本的总结性问题，以确定与水资源领域的决策方法和科学调查有关的研究需要。

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.