The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
DSS supports decisions with evidence: scenarios, options, trade-offs and their uncertainty, prepared so that a competent authority can deliberate and decide.
Fig.The Nexus cycle, from question to renewal. Design, not a record of a run.
Decision Support System is the Nexus Foundry system for decision briefs, option trade-offs, scenarios, uncertainty and spatial decision support. It serves 32 platforms, among them Water Nexus and Food Nexus, and its stated limit is that analysis is not the decision. Access is through an authorized project with an accountable owner, data terms and a review plan.
Urban demand centres and the hubs that anchor digital and data infrastructure, shown for Kenya as an example geography for this subject.
Investment and policy choices about systemic risk are made under deep uncertainty. Decision support has to compare options across many plausible futures, show what each assumes, and leave the value judgements to the people accountable for them.
| Reference | Relevance |
|---|---|
| ISO 31000 risk treatment | Selecting and justifying treatment options |
| IEC 31010 | Techniques including decision-tree, multi-criteria and scenario analysis |
| IPCC AR6 Working Group II | Adaptation pathways and decision-making under uncertainty |
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Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Multi-criteria decision analysis | A method that scores options against several weighted objectives and examines how the ranking changes with the weights. |
| Robust decision making | An approach that seeks strategies performing acceptably across many plausible futures. |
| Value of information | The expected improvement in a decision from obtaining more information before deciding. |
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