Resources
General SDM Resources & popular press books
- Hammond, J. S., Keeney, R. L., and Raiffa, H. (2015). Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions.
- Duke, A. (2020). How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices.
- Duke, A. (2018). Thinking In Bets: Making Smarter Decision When You Don’t Have All the Facts.
- Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow.
- Keeney, R. L. (1996). Value-focused Thinking: A Path to Creative Decisionmaking.
- Spetzler, C., Winter, H., and Meyer, J. (2016). Decision Quality: Value Creation from Better Business Decisions.
- Goodwin, P. and Wright, G. (2004). Decision Analysis for Management Judgment.
- Edwards, W., Miles, Jr., R.F., and von Winterfeldt, D. 2007. Advances in Decision Analysis: From Foundations to Applications.
SDM for Environmental Management
- Gregory, R., Failing, L., Harstone, M., Long, G., McDaniels, T., and Ohlson, D. (2012). Structured Decision Making: A Practical Guide to Environmental Management Choices.
- Runge, M. C., Converse, S. J., Lyons, J. E., and Smith, D. R. (2020). Structured Decision Making: Case Studies in Natural Resource Management.
- Hemming, V., Camaclang, A. E., Adams, M., et al. (2022). An introduction to decision science for conservation. Conservation Biology36:e13868.
- Instructor recordings for An Overview of Structured Decision Making
Specialized topics
- Instructor recordings on more advanced SDM topics (e.g., Expected Value of Information)
- Hemming, V., Burgman, M.A., Hanea, A.M., McBride, M.F., Wintle, B.C. (2018). A practical guide to structured expert elicitation using the IDEA protocol. Methods in Ecology and Evolution9:169–180.
- Structured Decision Making: Selected Bibliography.
Adaptive Management
- Williams, B. K., Szaro, R. C., & Shapiro, C. D. (2009). Adaptive Management: The U.S. Department of the Interior Technical Guide. Adaptive Management Working Group.
- Instructor recordings for Adaptive Management: Structured Decision Making for Recurrent Decisions course