Decision Science for Future Earth: A Conceptual Framework

Tetsukazu Yahara
Wataru Tanaka
Yukako Inoue
Jounghun Lee
Kun Qian
Firouzeh Javadi
Nariaki Onda
Fumihiko Yokota
Kumi Eguchi
Mariko Nishikitani
Kimiyo Kikuchi
Nobuyoshi Kawasaki
Yukyong Jeong
Jun’ichiro Ide
Tetsuji Ota
Takahiro Fujiwara
Tadatsugu Hosoya
Yuichi Kano
Megumi Sugimoto
Ashir Ahmed
Yukihiro Shimatani
Shota Tokunaga
Ai Nagahama
Michikazu Hiramatsu
Takahiro Murakami

AbstractThe purpose of this chapter is to review progress in our understanding of human behavior and decision-making relevant to future earth research agenda, and propose Decision Science as a hub of knowledge networks connecting disciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences with the practice of problem-solving. This review is composed of four sections. First, we describe the conceptual framework of “decision science for a sustainable society” and argue that evolutionary biology of the human nature is key to construct this framework. Second, we review how our group decision-making often fails due to various cognitive biases and argue that participatory approaches of co-design and co-production do not guarantee reasonable decision-making. Third, we review success stories of problem-solving in local communities and consider how we can connect those successes in local communities to successful national and global decision-making. Fourth, learning from both failures and successes, we argue that the adaptive learning of society is a process enabling us to transform our society toward a sustainable future. We review some positive global trends toward sustainability and consider the cognitive processes and behavioral mechanisms behind those trends that would provide clues for finding successful ways to transform our society.

Decision Science for Future Earth

Springer Singapore

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10.1007/978-981-15-8632-3_1

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8632-3_1
https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1360009142494068224?lang=ja
http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-981-15-8632-3_1