10.5061/DRYAD.9NQ5C8D
Davis, Katrina
University of Queensland
Chades, Iadine
University of Queensland
Rhodes, Jonathan
University of Queensland
Bode, Michael
University of Queensland
Data from: General rules for environmental management to prioritise
social-ecological systems research based on a value of information
approach
Dryad
dataset
2019
Social network analysis
research priorities
value of information
Environmental management
complexity
2019-05-28T18:17:02Z
2019-05-28T18:17:02Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13425
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1. Globally, billions of dollars are invested each year to help understand
the dynamics of social-ecological systems (SES) in bettering both social
and environmental outcomes. However, there is no scientific consensus on
which aspect of an SES is most important and urgent to understand;
particularly given the realities of limited time and money. 2. Here we use
a simulation-based “value of information” approach to examine where
research will deliver the most important information for environmental
management in four social-ecological systems representing a range of
real-life environmental issues. 3. We find that neither social nor
ecological information is consistently the most important: instead,
researchers should focus on understanding the primary effects of their
management actions. 4. Thus, when managers are undertaking social actions
the highest research priority should be understanding the dynamics of
social groups. Alternatively, when manipulating ecological systems it will
be most important to quantify ecological population dynamics. 5. Synthesis
and applications. Our results provide a standard assessment to determine
the uncertain SES component with the highest expected impact for
management outcomes. First, managers should determine the structure of
their SES by identifying social and ecological nodes. Second, managers
should identify the qualitative nature of the network, by determining
which nodes are linked, but not the strength of those interactions.
Finally, managers should identify the actions available to them to
intervene in the SES. From these steps, managers will be able to identify
the SES components that are closest to the management action(s), and it is
these nodes and interactions that should receive priority research
attention to achieve effective environmental decision making.
1_Code_VOIMatlab code to replicate analysis from article: "General
rules for environmental management to prioritise social-ecological systems
research based on a value of information approach." 1_Code_VOI
generates a series of MATLAB Data files, which are aggregated in
2_Code_EVPXI to calculate EVPXI for each system. 2_Code_EVPXI generates 4
csv files which are combined to reproduce Figure 4 from the manuscript in
3_Code_Figure.2_Code_EVPXIMatlab code to replicate analysis from article:
"General rules for environmental management to prioritise
social-ecological systems research based on a value of information
approach." 1_Code_VOI generates a series of MATLAB Data files, which
are aggregated in 2_Code_EVPXI to calculate EVPXI for each system.
2_Code_EVPXI generates 4 csv files which are combined to reproduce Figure
4 from the manuscript in 3_Code_Figure.3_Code_FigureR code to replicate
analysis from article: "General rules for environmental management to
prioritise social-ecological systems research based on a value of
information approach." 1_Code_VOI generates a series of MATLAB Data
files, which are aggregated in 2_Code_EVPXI to calculate EVPXI for each
system. 2_Code_EVPXI generates 4 csv files which are combined to reproduce
Figure 4 from the manuscript in 3_Code_Figure.