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Introduction Management model: fisheries Decision Theory Resilience Thinking UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS: MANAGEMENT UNDER UNCERTAINTY & ALTERNATE STABLE STATES @cboettig Carl Boettiger, UC Davis [email protected] Management under uncertainty 1/33

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Introduction Management model: fisheries Decision Theory Resilience Thinking

UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS:

MANAGEMENTUNDER UNCERTAINTY

& ALTERNATESTABLE STATES

@cboettig

Carl Boettiger, UC Davis [email protected] Management under uncertainty 1/33

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DecisionTheory

Resilience Thinking

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Introduction Management model: fisheries Decision Theory Resilience Thinking

1 Introduction

2 Management model: fisheries

3 Decision Theory

4 Resilience Thinking

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Building blocks

State Space

Action (Decision) SpaceEcological model (Stateequation)Socio-economic modelValue function

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Building blocks

State SpaceAction (Decision) Space

Ecological model (Stateequation)Socio-economic modelValue function

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Building blocks

State SpaceAction (Decision) SpaceEcological model (Stateequation)

Socio-economic modelValue function

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Introduction Management model: fisheries Decision Theory Resilience Thinking

Building blocks

State SpaceAction (Decision) SpaceEcological model (Stateequation)Socio-economic model

Value function

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Building blocks

State SpaceAction (Decision) SpaceEcological model (Stateequation)Socio-economic modelValue function

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Building blocks

State SpaceAction (Decision) SpaceEcological model (Stateequation)Socio-economic modelValue function

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State space | Action space

Fish stock size

x

Fishing harvest intensity

h

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State space | Action space

Fish stock size

x

Fishing harvest intensity

h

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State space | Action space

Fish stock size

x

Fishing harvest intensity

h

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State space | Action space

Fish stock size

x

Fishing harvest intensity

h

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Ecological model | Economic Model

Stock recruitment function

Xt+1 = Znf(Xn)

Beverton-Holt

f(x) = Ax

1 +Bx

Profit equation

π(x, h) = pmin(x, h)

−(c0 + c1

h

x

)h

x

p price of fishc0, c1 costs

Bellman’s Value function

Vt = maxh

(ThVt+1 + π(xt, ht)e−δ(T−t)

)(1)

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Ecological model | Economic Model

Stock recruitment function

Xt+1 = Znf(Xn)

Beverton-Holt

f(x) = Ax

1 +Bx

Profit equation

π(x, h) = pmin(x, h)

−(c0 + c1

h

x

)h

x

p price of fishc0, c1 costs

Bellman’s Value function

Vt = maxh

(ThVt+1 + π(xt, ht)e−δ(T−t)

)(1)

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DecisionTheory

Resilience Thinking

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What could go wrong?

f(x) has some stucturaluncertainty

Policy makers don’t listen tomathematically optimalstrategies

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What could go wrong?

f(x) has some stucturaluncertainty

Policy makers don’t listen tomathematically optimalstrategies

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What could go wrong?

f(x) has some stucturaluncertainty

Policy makers don’t listen tomathematically optimalstrategies

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Resilience thinking approaches

Early warning signals oftipping points

Considering keystakeholders

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Resilience thinking approaches

Early warning signals oftipping points

Considering keystakeholders

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Abandon decision theoretic approaches?

No! Synthesize resilience concepts withdecision theories. . .

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Abandon decision theoretic approaches?

No! Synthesize resilience concepts withdecision theories. . .

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Sometimes hard to identify the “increase” signal

Carpenter et al. 2011

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Decision theory needs probabilities, not possibilities

Boettiger &Hastings2012

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Decision theory needs probabilities, not possibilities

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Decision theory needs probabilities, not possibilities

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Policy Costs

Policy makers don’t listen to mathematically optimal strategies?

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Socio-economic optimum strategy

Reality: typical policy

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Socio-economic optimum strategy

Reality: typical policy

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There is a cost to changing policy

we canmodel that. . .

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Adding costs to changing policy

ΠL1(xt, ht, ht−1) = Π0 + c2 abs (ht − ht−1) (2)

ΠL2(xt, ht, ht−1) = Π0 + c2 (ht − ht−1)2 (3)Πfixed(xt, ht, ht−1) = Π0 + c2I(ht, ht−1) (4)Πasym(xt, ht, ht−1) = Π0 + c2 max (ht − ht−1, 0) (5)

Where I(a, b) = 0 for a 6= b and I(a, b) = 1 for a = b.

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Previous Action becomes part of state-space

Previous Action

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Cost-freeoptimumOptimumunder policycosts

Cost-freestockStock underpolicy costs

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Cost-freeoptimumOptimumunder policycosts

Cost-freestockStock underpolicy costs

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Cost-freeoptimumOptimumunder policycosts

Cost-freestockStock underpolicy costs

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Cost-freeoptimumOptimumunder policycosts

Cost-freestockStock underpolicy costs

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Ignoring political realities leads to worse solutionsReducing policy costs results in better management

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Conclusions

Decision theory provides a quantitative way to addresspolicy choices under uncertainty

But: traditional framework ignores key possibilities thataren’t probabilitiesModeling approaches can sometimes quantify these, andidentify when they matter mostMore synthesis of resilience thinking and decision theory isneeded!

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Conclusions

Decision theory provides a quantitative way to addresspolicy choices under uncertaintyBut: traditional framework ignores key possibilities thataren’t probabilities

Modeling approaches can sometimes quantify these, andidentify when they matter mostMore synthesis of resilience thinking and decision theory isneeded!

Carl Boettiger, UC Davis [email protected] Management under uncertainty 32/33

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Conclusions

Decision theory provides a quantitative way to addresspolicy choices under uncertaintyBut: traditional framework ignores key possibilities thataren’t probabilitiesModeling approaches can sometimes quantify these, andidentify when they matter most

More synthesis of resilience thinking and decision theory isneeded!

Carl Boettiger, UC Davis [email protected] Management under uncertainty 32/33

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Introduction Management model: fisheries Decision Theory Resilience Thinking

Conclusions

Decision theory provides a quantitative way to addresspolicy choices under uncertaintyBut: traditional framework ignores key possibilities thataren’t probabilitiesModeling approaches can sometimes quantify these, andidentify when they matter mostMore synthesis of resilience thinking and decision theory isneeded!

Carl Boettiger, UC Davis [email protected] Management under uncertainty 32/33

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Conclusions

Decision theory provides a quantitative way to addresspolicy choices under uncertaintyBut: traditional framework ignores key possibilities thataren’t probabilitiesModeling approaches can sometimes quantify these, andidentify when they matter mostMore synthesis of resilience thinking and decision theory isneeded!

Carl Boettiger, UC Davis [email protected] Management under uncertainty 32/33

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Acknowledgements

Image creditsNOAA

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

flickr users gfpeck, saneboy, tranchis

Boettiger et al 2012

Scheffer et al. 2001

Code, lab notebook, and more:http://carlboettiger.info/

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