Decision Support & Knowledge Transfer
"Where science meets policy, there is a tournament of competing agendas"
Our research aims at developing practical tools that can:
- Inform policy
- Support operational decisions
- Enhance consultations and improve consensus building
We aim to produce tools that couple the qualitative and quantitative methods of social scientists with the quantitative models of scientists and engineers - to understand and predict the environmental responses of human activity.
managing knowledge
. . . a local knowledge exchange pilot project with Ayrshire district councils
. . . for consensus building for sustainable development and environmental justice.
simulating societies
. . . with autonomous agents
Modelling behaviours at the individual level and extrapolating those behaviours to whole populations to gain understanding of how human activity impacts on engineered and global systems.
- The Integrated Household Waste Management Model
- Understanding Waste Paper Markets
- Simulation of Household Waste Prevention
optimising engineering processes
. . . for environmental management
- Contaminated Land Assessment
- Composting processes
Modelling the human factor using autonomous agents
helps us understand the human factor in real life
