Complex User Interfaces Don't Need to Be...ComplexGfK User Centric
Some user interfaces (UIs) can be designed to be incredibly simple and easy to use, whereas other UIs need to incorporate and support some level of complexity, whether it be the agent's screen design for a call center or the user workflow for system admins on enterprise applications. All too often, UIs are painted with broad brush strokes in terms of simple vs. complex.
This webinar presentation addresses the following questions:
• Where does 'complexity' come from?
• What 'complexity' is unavoidable?
• What 'complexity' is avoidable, and how can you avoid it?
Peter J. Cannone Technology and Cultural Learning Academyksheakshea
The Peter J. Cannone Technology and Cultural Learning Academy is committed to preparing students for the 21st century by cultivating global awareness and inspiring compassionate citizens through the use of current technologies. The school's mission is to hold high expectations for all learners. Core values include cooperation, strong work ethic, honesty, integrity, and recognizing that attitude and effort are most important for reaching learning goals. The vision is for students to use engaging technologies in collaborative, inquiry-based learning environments guided by teachers skilled in using technology to transform knowledge into new information.
The document discusses key aspects of providing excellent customer service, including establishing trust with customers, handling difficult customer situations, and communicating effectively with customers from different cultures or with special needs. It emphasizes displaying friendliness, having strong product knowledge, addressing customer emotions, actively listening to understand issues, and following up to ensure customer satisfaction. Strategies like AQUA (Acknowledge, Question, Understand, Answer) are recommended for defusing tensions and resolving problems. The importance of both verbal and nonverbal communication skills is also highlighted.
Bridging the Social Media Implementation/Audit GapJerod Brennen
It's one thing to embrace social media, but it's another thing entirely to embrace it securely. This presentation helps organizations understand what steps should be taken to ensure that their social media properties aren't abused or exploited to attack the organization.
PCI. HIPAA. CFPB. We're KILLING small businesses with over-regulation in the name of security, while turning a blind eye to the fact that the cost of over-regulation is doing more harm than good, distracting business owners from realistically focusing on the risks that apply to their companies. It's time to have an open, honest conversation about a "common sense" security framework.
This document discusses etiquette and protocols for customer interaction. It covers 6 modules: office etiquette and protocol, business conversation skills, basic customer care skills, handling difficult situations, making a positive first impression, and telephone handling. The benefits of good customer service are also discussed, including increased customer satisfaction, retention, and the company's bottom line. Body language, attitude, behavior, and distance are important aspects of customer interaction etiquette.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_21 Feb 2013_Group discussion_2.Tradeoffs ...LotteKlapwijk
This document discusses the role of researchers in the innovation process and presenting trade-offs to policymakers. It argues that single-issue policies can be damaging, and that researchers should present evidence of trade-offs to inform debates. Researchers need to establish credibility, relevance and legitimacy with different audiences. They must conduct rigorous, ongoing science to provide examples of trade-offs and communicate knowledge to different parties in the policy process. Dedicated teams are also needed for effective science communication to non-expert audiences.
Complex User Interfaces Don't Need to Be...ComplexGfK User Centric
Some user interfaces (UIs) can be designed to be incredibly simple and easy to use, whereas other UIs need to incorporate and support some level of complexity, whether it be the agent's screen design for a call center or the user workflow for system admins on enterprise applications. All too often, UIs are painted with broad brush strokes in terms of simple vs. complex.
This webinar presentation addresses the following questions:
• Where does 'complexity' come from?
• What 'complexity' is unavoidable?
• What 'complexity' is avoidable, and how can you avoid it?
Peter J. Cannone Technology and Cultural Learning Academyksheakshea
The Peter J. Cannone Technology and Cultural Learning Academy is committed to preparing students for the 21st century by cultivating global awareness and inspiring compassionate citizens through the use of current technologies. The school's mission is to hold high expectations for all learners. Core values include cooperation, strong work ethic, honesty, integrity, and recognizing that attitude and effort are most important for reaching learning goals. The vision is for students to use engaging technologies in collaborative, inquiry-based learning environments guided by teachers skilled in using technology to transform knowledge into new information.
The document discusses key aspects of providing excellent customer service, including establishing trust with customers, handling difficult customer situations, and communicating effectively with customers from different cultures or with special needs. It emphasizes displaying friendliness, having strong product knowledge, addressing customer emotions, actively listening to understand issues, and following up to ensure customer satisfaction. Strategies like AQUA (Acknowledge, Question, Understand, Answer) are recommended for defusing tensions and resolving problems. The importance of both verbal and nonverbal communication skills is also highlighted.
Bridging the Social Media Implementation/Audit GapJerod Brennen
It's one thing to embrace social media, but it's another thing entirely to embrace it securely. This presentation helps organizations understand what steps should be taken to ensure that their social media properties aren't abused or exploited to attack the organization.
PCI. HIPAA. CFPB. We're KILLING small businesses with over-regulation in the name of security, while turning a blind eye to the fact that the cost of over-regulation is doing more harm than good, distracting business owners from realistically focusing on the risks that apply to their companies. It's time to have an open, honest conversation about a "common sense" security framework.
This document discusses etiquette and protocols for customer interaction. It covers 6 modules: office etiquette and protocol, business conversation skills, basic customer care skills, handling difficult situations, making a positive first impression, and telephone handling. The benefits of good customer service are also discussed, including increased customer satisfaction, retention, and the company's bottom line. Body language, attitude, behavior, and distance are important aspects of customer interaction etiquette.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_21 Feb 2013_Group discussion_2.Tradeoffs ...LotteKlapwijk
This document discusses the role of researchers in the innovation process and presenting trade-offs to policymakers. It argues that single-issue policies can be damaging, and that researchers should present evidence of trade-offs to inform debates. Researchers need to establish credibility, relevance and legitimacy with different audiences. They must conduct rigorous, ongoing science to provide examples of trade-offs and communicate knowledge to different parties in the policy process. Dedicated teams are also needed for effective science communication to non-expert audiences.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_21 Feb 2013_Group discussion_1.Theory of ...LotteKlapwijk
1. Theories of change need to be dynamic and set against plausible future scenarios to account for underlying trends and potential shocks. They should acknowledge non-linear change and tipping points.
2. Outcomes should be articulated honestly and realistically in terms of contributions rather than strict attribution, and consider trade-offs between different goals and timescales. Process-level indicators are also important.
3. Theories of change will need revising as realities emerge, and should embrace system-level definitions to influence key actors and institutions driving change. Building resilience to mitigate anticipated and unanticipated shocks at different scales should also be included.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_21 Feb 2013_External WCMC_Marieke SassenLotteKlapwijk
UNEP-WCMC examines the importance of ecosystem services for human well-being and biodiversity conservation. It supports projects on smallholder agriculture and food security, assesses trade-offs from agribusiness expansion, and plans a TEEB study on valuing ecosystem services in agriculture. The TEEB study would raise awareness of how agriculture depends on ecosystem services, measure their economic values, and help integrate these values into agricultural decision-making. UNEP-WCMC is exploring partnerships to conduct a meta-analysis and case studies for the agriculture TEEB assessment.
Workshop Trade-Off Analysis - CGIAR_21 Feb 2013_External Vital Sig…LotteKlapwijk
This document proposes an integrated monitoring system for agricultural landscapes to assess tradeoffs between ecosystem services, agricultural production, and human well-being. It involves co-locating data across space and time using existing systems where possible. National governments would own the data to link with other collection efforts. A "vital signs approach" is described using decision-support indicators across categories like climate, biodiversity, water, and food security. Measurement would occur on the ground and via satellite at different scales from global to field levels. The system aims to facilitate comparisons and provide insights to inform agricultural investment decisions.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_20 Feb 2013_Keynote Todd CraneLotteKlapwijk
This document discusses the encounter between research and agrarian cultures. It provides conceptual clarifications around impact and culture, and examines examples of the co-production of knowledge through soil fertility trials and rotational grazing practices. The document concludes that achieving impact is a process, not a goal, and that change emerges from practice and relationships rather than being perfectly planned or predicted.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_20 Feb 2013_Keynote Petr HavlikLotteKlapwijk
The document discusses modeling trade-offs in agricultural systems at regional and global scales. It presents an overview of the Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM), which is a partial equilibrium model that analyzes the agriculture, forestry, and bioenergy sectors. GLOBIOM is used to study issues like land use change, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, and incomes under different scenarios. Case studies examine questions around sustainable intensification, development pathways, and the impacts of changes in crop yields. The model aims to provide insights into complex trade-offs between competing land use demands.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_20 Feb 2013_Keynote Monika ZurekLotteKlapwijk
The document discusses using scenario planning to analyze and manage trade-offs in resource management decisions. It provides examples from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment scenario work, which explored trade-offs decision makers may face under different scenarios. The assessment developed four scenarios based on different emphases on economic policy, environmentalism, technology, and local adaptation to examine impacts on ecosystems, ecosystem services, and human well-being. The scenarios helped analyze trade-offs between goals like food production, biodiversity, and water security under different pathways.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_20 Feb 2013_Keynote Javier EkboirLotteKlapwijk
The document discusses complex adaptive systems (CAS) and how they apply to both natural and human systems. It explains that CAS cannot be understood by analyzing separate components and that their dynamics are nonlinear. The presentation examines how human behaviors and interventions can change CAS dynamics in unexpected ways and influence outcomes. It emphasizes that modeling CAS requires accounting for surprises, phase changes, and reorganizations. The document also addresses innovation as a CAS, noting the need to operate on slow-moving variables using fast-moving instruments to achieve impact at scale.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_20 Feb 2013_Group Discussion_What's newLotteKlapwijk
This document discusses the potential for systems thinking approaches to be more widely applied in agricultural research across the CGIAR. Some key points made include:
- Systems approaches could help address the fine-grained variation in factors like soil, climate, farming practices and policies across different locations and scales.
- New tools are available to better understand variation in adoption drivers and test a sufficient range of options across different conditions through modeling and experimentation.
- Capacity strengthening is needed within the CGIAR and among partners to ensure methods can be widely used, which will require different skills, partnerships and funding models than traditional research.
- For CRPs to apply systems approaches effectively, they need to sample across more variability
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_20 Feb 2013_Group discussion_Harmonizatio...LotteKlapwijk
The document discusses different levels of analyzing land use systems from a high level analysis of tradeoffs at the system level to more detailed analyses incorporating spatial and human factors. It presents four frameworks moving from analyzing system properties to incorporating spatial detail, people, and dynamic agent-based modeling. A variety of indicators and metrics are proposed for evaluating land use systems across different contexts and scales.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_Workshop Introduction Ken GillerLotteKlapwijk
This document proposes a framework for analyzing trade-offs in African smallholder farming systems at different scales. It discusses analyzing trade-offs and potential synergies between productivity and sustainability over different time scales. It also examines trade-offs from local to global levels, considering both physical and political boundaries. The framework aims to identify win-win, win-lose, or lose-lose scenarios, and address questions of power and voice between stakeholders. It references Jevon's Paradox that efficiency gains can paradoxically lead to faster resource depletion and calls for discussion using simple, plain language and short questions/answers.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_Workshop agenda, output, etc....LotteKlapwijk
This document provides an agenda and logistical details for a multi-day event. Keynotes will be held in room C226 and may be larger than expected. Group discussions are outlined in the program across 5 rooms. Lunch and coffee breaks will be provided on site, and a dinner is planned for Thursday evening at Restaurant H41. Buses will be available at 8:30am and 5:15pm, and participants must pay for their own hotel accommodations. The event aims to facilitate exchange of ideas from tools to impact, explore synergies within and between CRPs, and potential outputs include a handbook, review paper on trade-offs for CGIAR, and working groups.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_Overview of TOA_Lotte KlapwijkLotteKlapwijk
This document discusses different methods for analyzing trade-offs in agricultural systems. It describes qualitative participatory methods, empirical experimental approaches, simulation modeling, and optimization techniques. Each method has strengths and weaknesses depending on the objectives, indicators, data requirements, and ability to involve stakeholders. Integrated assessment requires selecting appropriate quantitative and qualitative methods matched to the scale of analysis from farm to regional levels.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_Keynote Meine van NoordwijkLotteKlapwijk
This document discusses trade-offs between agricultural productivity, food security, profitability, and ecological services at the landscape and watershed level. It introduces concepts like balancing different Sustainable Development Goals, the role of tree cover transitions in agricultural intensification, quantifying buffer zones, and using sentinel landscapes as research tools. Sub-system interactions between factors like rules, incentives, governance, and local knowledge need to be considered to effectively achieve sustainable changes.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_Keynote Dave HarrisLotteKlapwijk
Wide boundaries for rural systems: implications for household decision-making and adoption of agricultural technology.
This document discusses key concepts related to sustainable intensification for rural households, including profitability of technologies, land size, and household income. It examines the potential for households to benefit from intensifying agriculture based on these factors. The document also reviews factors that influence household decision-making and notes more understanding is needed of what criteria rural households use to make adoption and investment decisions.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_Keynote Pablo TittonellLotteKlapwijk
The document discusses quantifying trade-offs in agricultural systems. It defines trade-offs as situations where two or more competing objectives must be satisfied. It provides examples of measuring trade-offs through data, dynamic household models, Pareto optimization, inverse dynamic modeling, and agent-based systems/games. One example shows quantifying trade-offs through absolute versus relative changes in objectives A and B when changing from points A0 and B0 to either A1, B1' or A1, B1".
1) The document discusses assessing options for adaptation, mitigation and risk management at multiple scales, including household, community, national and global levels to understand trade-offs and synergies.
2) It also discusses assessing options across different temporal scales from coping with short-term disasters to adapting to long-term climate changes.
3) Finally, it examines assessing options across different domains of knowledge and approaches, balancing indigenous and scientific knowledge, and balancing technological and social learning approaches.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_CRP 6_Meine van NoordwijkLotteKlapwijk
This document discusses analyzing trade-offs in agricultural systems at different temporal and spatial scales. It identifies key trade-off questions that will be examined in the CRP6 program using various modeling and analysis tools. These include trade-offs between productivity, livelihoods, and ecological services; forests and people; tree cover transitions and ecosystem functions; and carbon stock and rural income. Agent-based modeling will allow exploring trade-offs at different levels from individual land users to entire landscapes.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_CRP 5_Katherine SnyderLotteKlapwijk
This document summarizes the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). [1] WLE aims to sustainably intensify agriculture to feed 9 billion people by 2050 without destroying the environment. [2] It has three main goals: improving food security through sustainable intensification, improving sharing of ecosystem services, and strengthening institutional arrangements. [3] WLE works in 8 regions covering over a billion people to achieve these goals through its four programs focused on irrigated systems, rainfed systems, resource recovery and reuse, and basins.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_CRP 3.7_Mark van WijkLotteKlapwijk
The document summarizes the aims and approaches of the Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research Program. The program aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems in sustainable ways to make meat, milk and fish more available and affordable to poor consumers. It plans to do this through technology development, value chain development, targeting interventions based on tradeoffs across scales, and using modeling approaches to evaluate strategies and outcomes.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_CRP 3.3_Bjoern Ole SanderLotteKlapwijk
This document discusses research at IRRI related to trade-offs in climate change. It summarizes several projects measuring greenhouse gas emissions from rice production. Alternate wetting and drying reduces CH4 emissions from rice but can increase N2O emissions. It also discusses developing a new methodology for the Clean Development Mechanism that establishes default values for reducing CH4 emissions through intermittent flooding in rice production. Accurate sampling is important for estimating seasonal GHG impacts. The research aims to balance scientific accuracy with potential impact.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_21 Feb 2013_Group discussion_1.Theory of ...LotteKlapwijk
1. Theories of change need to be dynamic and set against plausible future scenarios to account for underlying trends and potential shocks. They should acknowledge non-linear change and tipping points.
2. Outcomes should be articulated honestly and realistically in terms of contributions rather than strict attribution, and consider trade-offs between different goals and timescales. Process-level indicators are also important.
3. Theories of change will need revising as realities emerge, and should embrace system-level definitions to influence key actors and institutions driving change. Building resilience to mitigate anticipated and unanticipated shocks at different scales should also be included.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_21 Feb 2013_External WCMC_Marieke SassenLotteKlapwijk
UNEP-WCMC examines the importance of ecosystem services for human well-being and biodiversity conservation. It supports projects on smallholder agriculture and food security, assesses trade-offs from agribusiness expansion, and plans a TEEB study on valuing ecosystem services in agriculture. The TEEB study would raise awareness of how agriculture depends on ecosystem services, measure their economic values, and help integrate these values into agricultural decision-making. UNEP-WCMC is exploring partnerships to conduct a meta-analysis and case studies for the agriculture TEEB assessment.
Workshop Trade-Off Analysis - CGIAR_21 Feb 2013_External Vital Sig…LotteKlapwijk
This document proposes an integrated monitoring system for agricultural landscapes to assess tradeoffs between ecosystem services, agricultural production, and human well-being. It involves co-locating data across space and time using existing systems where possible. National governments would own the data to link with other collection efforts. A "vital signs approach" is described using decision-support indicators across categories like climate, biodiversity, water, and food security. Measurement would occur on the ground and via satellite at different scales from global to field levels. The system aims to facilitate comparisons and provide insights to inform agricultural investment decisions.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_20 Feb 2013_Keynote Todd CraneLotteKlapwijk
This document discusses the encounter between research and agrarian cultures. It provides conceptual clarifications around impact and culture, and examines examples of the co-production of knowledge through soil fertility trials and rotational grazing practices. The document concludes that achieving impact is a process, not a goal, and that change emerges from practice and relationships rather than being perfectly planned or predicted.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_20 Feb 2013_Keynote Petr HavlikLotteKlapwijk
The document discusses modeling trade-offs in agricultural systems at regional and global scales. It presents an overview of the Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM), which is a partial equilibrium model that analyzes the agriculture, forestry, and bioenergy sectors. GLOBIOM is used to study issues like land use change, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, and incomes under different scenarios. Case studies examine questions around sustainable intensification, development pathways, and the impacts of changes in crop yields. The model aims to provide insights into complex trade-offs between competing land use demands.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_20 Feb 2013_Keynote Monika ZurekLotteKlapwijk
The document discusses using scenario planning to analyze and manage trade-offs in resource management decisions. It provides examples from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment scenario work, which explored trade-offs decision makers may face under different scenarios. The assessment developed four scenarios based on different emphases on economic policy, environmentalism, technology, and local adaptation to examine impacts on ecosystems, ecosystem services, and human well-being. The scenarios helped analyze trade-offs between goals like food production, biodiversity, and water security under different pathways.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_20 Feb 2013_Keynote Javier EkboirLotteKlapwijk
The document discusses complex adaptive systems (CAS) and how they apply to both natural and human systems. It explains that CAS cannot be understood by analyzing separate components and that their dynamics are nonlinear. The presentation examines how human behaviors and interventions can change CAS dynamics in unexpected ways and influence outcomes. It emphasizes that modeling CAS requires accounting for surprises, phase changes, and reorganizations. The document also addresses innovation as a CAS, noting the need to operate on slow-moving variables using fast-moving instruments to achieve impact at scale.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_20 Feb 2013_Group Discussion_What's newLotteKlapwijk
This document discusses the potential for systems thinking approaches to be more widely applied in agricultural research across the CGIAR. Some key points made include:
- Systems approaches could help address the fine-grained variation in factors like soil, climate, farming practices and policies across different locations and scales.
- New tools are available to better understand variation in adoption drivers and test a sufficient range of options across different conditions through modeling and experimentation.
- Capacity strengthening is needed within the CGIAR and among partners to ensure methods can be widely used, which will require different skills, partnerships and funding models than traditional research.
- For CRPs to apply systems approaches effectively, they need to sample across more variability
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_20 Feb 2013_Group discussion_Harmonizatio...LotteKlapwijk
The document discusses different levels of analyzing land use systems from a high level analysis of tradeoffs at the system level to more detailed analyses incorporating spatial and human factors. It presents four frameworks moving from analyzing system properties to incorporating spatial detail, people, and dynamic agent-based modeling. A variety of indicators and metrics are proposed for evaluating land use systems across different contexts and scales.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_Workshop Introduction Ken GillerLotteKlapwijk
This document proposes a framework for analyzing trade-offs in African smallholder farming systems at different scales. It discusses analyzing trade-offs and potential synergies between productivity and sustainability over different time scales. It also examines trade-offs from local to global levels, considering both physical and political boundaries. The framework aims to identify win-win, win-lose, or lose-lose scenarios, and address questions of power and voice between stakeholders. It references Jevon's Paradox that efficiency gains can paradoxically lead to faster resource depletion and calls for discussion using simple, plain language and short questions/answers.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_Workshop agenda, output, etc....LotteKlapwijk
This document provides an agenda and logistical details for a multi-day event. Keynotes will be held in room C226 and may be larger than expected. Group discussions are outlined in the program across 5 rooms. Lunch and coffee breaks will be provided on site, and a dinner is planned for Thursday evening at Restaurant H41. Buses will be available at 8:30am and 5:15pm, and participants must pay for their own hotel accommodations. The event aims to facilitate exchange of ideas from tools to impact, explore synergies within and between CRPs, and potential outputs include a handbook, review paper on trade-offs for CGIAR, and working groups.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_Overview of TOA_Lotte KlapwijkLotteKlapwijk
This document discusses different methods for analyzing trade-offs in agricultural systems. It describes qualitative participatory methods, empirical experimental approaches, simulation modeling, and optimization techniques. Each method has strengths and weaknesses depending on the objectives, indicators, data requirements, and ability to involve stakeholders. Integrated assessment requires selecting appropriate quantitative and qualitative methods matched to the scale of analysis from farm to regional levels.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_Keynote Meine van NoordwijkLotteKlapwijk
This document discusses trade-offs between agricultural productivity, food security, profitability, and ecological services at the landscape and watershed level. It introduces concepts like balancing different Sustainable Development Goals, the role of tree cover transitions in agricultural intensification, quantifying buffer zones, and using sentinel landscapes as research tools. Sub-system interactions between factors like rules, incentives, governance, and local knowledge need to be considered to effectively achieve sustainable changes.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_Keynote Dave HarrisLotteKlapwijk
Wide boundaries for rural systems: implications for household decision-making and adoption of agricultural technology.
This document discusses key concepts related to sustainable intensification for rural households, including profitability of technologies, land size, and household income. It examines the potential for households to benefit from intensifying agriculture based on these factors. The document also reviews factors that influence household decision-making and notes more understanding is needed of what criteria rural households use to make adoption and investment decisions.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_Keynote Pablo TittonellLotteKlapwijk
The document discusses quantifying trade-offs in agricultural systems. It defines trade-offs as situations where two or more competing objectives must be satisfied. It provides examples of measuring trade-offs through data, dynamic household models, Pareto optimization, inverse dynamic modeling, and agent-based systems/games. One example shows quantifying trade-offs through absolute versus relative changes in objectives A and B when changing from points A0 and B0 to either A1, B1' or A1, B1".
1) The document discusses assessing options for adaptation, mitigation and risk management at multiple scales, including household, community, national and global levels to understand trade-offs and synergies.
2) It also discusses assessing options across different temporal scales from coping with short-term disasters to adapting to long-term climate changes.
3) Finally, it examines assessing options across different domains of knowledge and approaches, balancing indigenous and scientific knowledge, and balancing technological and social learning approaches.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_CRP 6_Meine van NoordwijkLotteKlapwijk
This document discusses analyzing trade-offs in agricultural systems at different temporal and spatial scales. It identifies key trade-off questions that will be examined in the CRP6 program using various modeling and analysis tools. These include trade-offs between productivity, livelihoods, and ecological services; forests and people; tree cover transitions and ecosystem functions; and carbon stock and rural income. Agent-based modeling will allow exploring trade-offs at different levels from individual land users to entire landscapes.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_CRP 5_Katherine SnyderLotteKlapwijk
This document summarizes the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). [1] WLE aims to sustainably intensify agriculture to feed 9 billion people by 2050 without destroying the environment. [2] It has three main goals: improving food security through sustainable intensification, improving sharing of ecosystem services, and strengthening institutional arrangements. [3] WLE works in 8 regions covering over a billion people to achieve these goals through its four programs focused on irrigated systems, rainfed systems, resource recovery and reuse, and basins.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_CRP 3.7_Mark van WijkLotteKlapwijk
The document summarizes the aims and approaches of the Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research Program. The program aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems in sustainable ways to make meat, milk and fish more available and affordable to poor consumers. It plans to do this through technology development, value chain development, targeting interventions based on tradeoffs across scales, and using modeling approaches to evaluate strategies and outcomes.
Workshop Trade-off Analysis - CGIAR_19 Feb 2013_CRP 3.3_Bjoern Ole SanderLotteKlapwijk
This document discusses research at IRRI related to trade-offs in climate change. It summarizes several projects measuring greenhouse gas emissions from rice production. Alternate wetting and drying reduces CH4 emissions from rice but can increase N2O emissions. It also discusses developing a new methodology for the Clean Development Mechanism that establishes default values for reducing CH4 emissions through intermittent flooding in rice production. Accurate sampling is important for estimating seasonal GHG impacts. The research aims to balance scientific accuracy with potential impact.
2. General observations
Results of complex models are difficult to interpret.
Simplified systems
Models for informed decision making/discussions
Use of models
● Research tool
● Discussion tool
● Extension tool
Complex versus simple Complex AND simple
3. Research approach
Question
Back of the envelop
Answer? Solution
Complex model
Case
Simple model
Upscaling
4. Getting access to:
Skilled people
● Important for all modelling studies, particularly for
back of the envelope calculations.
● It is a perception that modeling is difficult
High quality data
● What is needed? Better definition (AgMIP, K.
Shepherd)
Enough funds
● We wonder whether this is specific for modeling
● CRP’s are a good opportunity for long term
work/model development.
5. Participatory approaches
Participatory approaches should be combined with the
modelling approaches.
Models as discussion tools/extension tools part of
participatory tools
Skilled people are also a limitation for the participatory
approaches.
Participatory is a broad category with its (dis)advantages
6. Include new/different disciplines (psychologies/political
scientists)
So far cutting edge modeling upscaling
Data limitations particularly on ag. management.
Models should identify key drivers that can be collected.
Risks
Short term vs long term views
Other modelling approaches?