Dear all, this coming Monday at 1.00 in the Muniment Room Prof Mark Colyvan will be talking about:
Value of Information Studies in Conservation Biology Mark Colyvan (University of Sydney) Abstract: It has been mostly assumed that more and better quality data will lead to better conservation management decisions. Indeed, this assumption lies behind, and motivates, a great deal of work in conservation biology. Of course, more data can lead to better decisions in some cases but decision-theoretic models of the value of information show that in many cases the cost of the data is too high and thus not worth the effort of collecting. While such value-of-information studies are well known in economics and decision theory circles, their applications in conservation biology are relatively new and rather controversial. I discuss some reasons to be wary of wholesale acceptance of such studies. See you all there. Dr. Kristie Miller Senior ARC Research Fellow School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney Australia Room 407, A 14 [email protected] [email protected] Ph: +612 9036 9663 http://www.kristiemiller.net/KristieMiller2/Home_Page.html
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