Resources

Below are a list of a variety of resources that may be useful to learn more about decision analysis/structured decision making

Helpful Resources

Structured Decision Making Cheat Sheet
Rapid Prototyping cheat sheet
Rapid Prototyping -additional diagrams
Structured Decision Making Books: Runge et al. 2020, Gregory et al. 2012, Conroy and Peterson 2013
Review paper: An introduction to decision science for conservation (Hemming et al. 2022)
Smart Choices book (John S. Hammond, Ralph L Keeney, Howard Raiffa)
National Conservation Training Center videos
Structured Decision Making website

The material for this class has been modified from:

A variety of previous SDM workshops including authors: Michael C. Runge, Justin Gude, Angela Romito, Alex McInturff, Jean Fitts Cochrane, Angela Matz, Jennifer A. Szymanski, James E. Lyons, Sarah J. Converse, Mitch Eaton, Paul Barrett, Julie Zimmerman, Jean Cochrane, Ashley Fortune Isham, Michael E Colvin, Brielle K Thompson
Runge MC, Cochrane JF, Converse SJ, Szymanski JA, Smith DR, Lyons JE, Eaton MJ, Matz A, Barrett P, Nichols JD, Parkin MJ. 2015. An overview of structured decision making, revised edition. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA.
Runge MC, Converse SJ, Sells SN, Thompson BK, and Isham AF. 2023. Workshop: Fundamentals of Structured Decision Making. The Wildlife Society Annual Conference, November 5, 2023. Louisville, Kentucky.
An Overview of Structured Decision-Making for Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife 2022 & 2023
An overview of Structured Decision Making for natural resources, Missouri Natural Resources Conference, Brielle K Thompson, February 20th 2025, Osage Beach, MO website
An overview of Structured Decision Making for natural resources, Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Brielle K Thompson & Michael E Colvin, January 19th 2025, St. Louis, MO website