DMUU: Center for Research on Environmental Decisions: Understanding and Improving Environmental Decisions

该合作小组将继续努力研究气候不确定性下的个人和群体决策以及面对环境风险的决策。这些研究人员将把重点放在综合过去十年在农业和水资源管理等领域进行的研究的理论和实证结果上。三个主题连接了不同的研究项目：科学信息的呈现和使用，社会背景在不同尺度上的作用，以及决策架构的影响。协作小组将综合跨不同部门、文化和理论框架产生的项目结果。重点将放在有利于广泛的学术和从业者社区的产品开发上，例如书籍、教育视频和教程。这些材料将提供给今后关于环境决策目标和过程的研究以及与环境科学有关的科学信息的传播，以促进可持续性。该合作小组将通过虚拟连接维持其国际专家和研究人员网络。研究人员将综合他们之前在不同部门、文化和理论框架中产生的理论和实证结果，并将这些结果转化为其他研究人员可以访问的形式。综合和整合基于部门的实地项目结果（在气候、水、灾害、能源领域）的努力将使研究人员能够从认知和社会心理学中推断出环境感知和决策中的中心构念的影响。跨部门比较研究结果，特别是与描述-经验差距有关的研究结果，将使研究人员能够理清个人经历的不同因素的影响。综合活动将集中在选择架构，行为决策理论和见解转化为干预。对不同领域和不同决策者群体的不同选择架构干预的相对有效性进行荟萃分析将生成一个矩阵，其中包括来自该协作组和其他组的数据。该合作小组项目由美国国家科学基金会社会、行为和经济科学理事会通过其不确定决策制定（DMUU）资助机会支持。

This collaborative group will continue ongoing efforts to study individual and group decision making under climate uncertainty and decision making in the face of environmental risk. The researchers will focus on synthesizing theoretical and empirical results of studies conducted over the last ten years in areas such as agriculture and water management. Three themes have connected the various research projects: the presentation and use of scientific information, the role of social context across different scales, and the effects of decision architecture. The collaborative group will synthesize project results generated across different sectors, cultures, and theoretical frameworks. The focus will be on the development of products that benefit the broad academic and practitioner communities, such as a book, educational videos, and tutorials. These materials will be available to inform future studies of environmental decision goals and processes and the communication of scientific information related to environmental science in order to motivate sustainability. The collaborative group will maintain its international network of expertise and researchers through virtual connections.The investigators will synthesize theoretical and empirical results from their prior research generated across different sectors, cultures, and theoretical frameworks and translate those results into a form accessible to other researchers. Synthesis and integration efforts of sector-based field project results (in the areas of climate, water, hazards, energy) will enable researchers to infer the influence of central constructs from cognitive and social psychology in environmental perception and decisions. Comparing findings across sectors, particularly pertaining to the description-experience gap, will allow researchers to disentangle the effect of different elements of personal experience. Synthesis activities will focus on choice architecture, where behavioral decision theories and insights are turned into interventions. A meta-analysis of the relative effectiveness of different choice architecture interventions in different domains and with different populations of decision makers will generate a matrix, including data from this collaborative group and others. This collaborative group project is supported by the NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences through its Decision Making Under Uncertainty (DMUU) funding opportunity.