The DecisionScape Overview Presentation
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Cumulative impacts are a part of everyone’s everyday lives. The question remains whether a feasible, standardized approach can be designed to coordinate across sectors, scales, and stakeholders, or whether the conundrum of cumulative impacts shall remain uncoordinated through time. The work presented here attempts to operationalize cumulative impacts. It is based on the premise that only through human decision-making can change occur through programs, policies, and decisions acting as points of intervention and levers for change, supported by science and targeted to relevant stakeholders. This work presents a simple and familiar conceptual model and four real-world applications; not designed to address cumulative impacts, but rather to address impacts cumulatively. The process to address impacts cumulatively is simple; not easy, but straightforward, and can be done by any individual, team, or organization – public, private, or government; local, regional, or national – motivated to improve public health and environmental quality.