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The 2009 Fenner Conference on the Environment focussed on the basics of good environmental decision making with an emphasis on science and policy, prioritisation, adaptive management and cost-effective monitoring. It brought together environmental scientists from around Australia and the world to meet with senior environmental managers from regional, state and Commonwealth agencies to discuss ways we can improve decision making on environmental investments and priorities.
The conference was run by AEDA and Landscape Logic with support from the Australian Academy of Science. Landscape Logic have kindly posted all the presentations and conference feedback on their web site, and the conference hand-book can be downloaded HERE (1.15Mb).
Some feedback from the audience:
“Challenged my thinking on prioritising”
“Showed me different way of presenting options and considering decisions. Will help me in discussions with the Minister and Senior Management”
“Very relevant in terms of CFOC and the relationship of a systems model for funding requirements”
“Heard great examples of decision theory for complex problems”
“Really interesting to hear about incorporating detection probability and targetted monitoring. Hopefully I can incorporate this into my own work.”
“Extremely useful for re-invigoration and updating knowledge of approaches and tools”
“A very good mix of people in the audience”
