Decision Point Magazine October 2011

Decision Point is the downloadable monthly magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group (EDG). It presents news and views on environmental decision making, biodiversity, conservation planning and monitoring. In the current (October 2011) issue of Decision Point you’ll find the following stories:

• Why don’t environmental managers use decision frameworks? David Pannell reflects on the reasons decision theory isn’t used when it could produce big results.
• Fire breeds fire – and the trap is sprung. Victoria’s mountain ash forests are becoming a landscape trap.
• Of beetles, roos and logs. Can woody debris be used to manage the impacts of kangaroos?
• Which populations get priority? Should we abandon Sumatran tiger subpopulations to save the subspecies?
• Sisters are doing it for themselves. Yvonne, Tara and Eve each score important awards for their science.