Department Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling

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      authors => protected'Reichert, P.; Ambord, I.; von Wattenwyl, K.; Schläppi, 
         S.; Pompini, M.; Dönni, W.; Thomas, G.; Siber, R.; Schu
         wirth, N.' (166 chars)
      title => protected'Priorisierung der Sanierung künstlicher Fischwanderhindernisse. Unterstütz
         ung bei der strategischen Planung der Revitalisierung von Fliessgewässern' (150 chars)
      journal => protected'Aqua & Gas' (10 chars)
      year => protected2024 (integer)
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      issue => protected'3' (1 chars)
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      description => protected'Das Priorisierungskonzept zur Sanierung von künstlichen Fischwanderhinderni
         ssen beruht auf Fragmentierungsanalysen des Einzugsgebiets. Diese bieten ein
         en Überblick über die für Fische zusammenhängenden Regionen im aktuellen
          und im natürlichen Zustand. Hindernisse, deren Sanierung die Vernetzung mi
         t dem Hauptfluss verbessert oder grosse zusammenhängende Regionen verbindet
         , bringen einen besonders grossen potenziellen Gewinn für die Fischgemeinsc
         haft.' (461 chars)
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      authors => protected'Khaliq, I.; Narwani, A.; Vorburger, C.; Schuwirth, N.' (73 chars)
      title => protected'Documenting climate-driven changes in Swiss macroinvertebrate communities wi
         th a 'temperature index': an evaluation of different sources of thermal pref
         erence data' (163 chars)
      journal => protected'Ecological Indicators' (21 chars)
      year => protected2025 (integer)
      volume => protected178 (integer)
      issue => protected'' (0 chars)
      startpage => protected'114129 (10 pp.)' (15 chars)
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      description => protected'Freshwater ecosystems support a disproportionate share of global biodiversit
         y. Freshwater macroinvertebrates are frequently used as bioindicators to ass
         ess the ecological status of streams and rivers. However, ongoing climate ch
         ange is altering the compositions of these communities, highlighting the nee
         d for tools to detect climate-related shifts. We propose and evaluate an eco
         logical index based on the SPEcies At Risk (SPEAR) approach to quantify the 
         proportion of species that are sensitive to higher temperatures within Ephem
         eroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera communities. We calculated this index u
         sing six different data sources for thermal preferences: experimentally meas
         ured thermal tolerances, the mean temperature from global occurrence records
          (GBIF), preferred temperatures obtained from multivariate species distribut
         ion models (SDM), the central temperature tendency derived from Swiss monito
         ring data according to the KLIWA approach, and two different sources of expe
         rt knowledge from a curated trait database. For all sources, we designated t
         he species comprising the lower 50th percentile of thermal preference values
          as sensitive and the upper half as insensitive to warmer temperatures. To e
         valuate the performance of the six versions of this SPEAR<sub>temperature</s
         ub> on a geographic scale, we leveraged data from two Swiss wide monitoring 
         programs including samples from 570 sites for the period 2010–2022 and fro
         m 183 sites for 2018–2023. While all six versions recapitulated a declinin
         g proportion of sensitive species with increasing water temperature, the rel
         ation was strongest when using the KLIWA-based thermal preference classifica
         tion. On average across all sites, we observed a significant decline of the 
         SPEAR<sub>temperature</sub> index over the 2010–2022 period, independent o
         f the source for the classification. This is consistent with a signal of war
         ming-related community turnover, or ‘thermophilisation’. These results i
         ndicate that the index i...' (2195 chars)
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      doi => protected'10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.114129' (29 chars)
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      authors => protected'Vorburger,&nbsp;C.; Khaliq,&nbsp;I.; Chollet Ramampiandra,&nbsp;E.; Narwani,
         &nbsp;A.; Schuwirth,&nbsp;N.' (104 chars)
      title => protected'Biologische Gewässerbeurteilung im Klimawandel' (47 chars)
      journal => protected'Aqua & Gas' (10 chars)
      year => protected2024 (integer)
      volume => protected104 (integer)
      issue => protected'10' (2 chars)
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      description => protected'Als Folge des Klimawandels etablieren sich immer mehr wärmeliebende Arten i
         n Schweizer Gewässern. Da wirbellose Kleinlebewesen als Bioindikatoren für
          die Qualität von Fliessgewässern dienen, könnte diese Entwicklung die bi
         ologische Gewässerbeurteilung verfälschen. Simulationen zeigen, dass die V
         ielfalt der Wirbellosen tatsächlich zunehmen wird, jedoch auf Kosten kälte
         liebender Arten. Soweit sich das beurteilen lässt, sind die verwendeten Ind
         izes aber robust genug, um ihre Aussagekraft zur Gewässerqualität für die
          nächsten Jahrzehnte zu behalten.' (566 chars)
      serialnumber => protected'2235-5197' (9 chars)
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      authors => protected'Khaliq,&nbsp;I.; Chollet Ramampiandra,&nbsp;E.; Vorburger,&nbsp;C.; Narwani,
         &nbsp;A.; Schuwirth,&nbsp;N.' (104 chars)
      title => protected'The effect of water temperature changes on biological water quality assessme
         nt' (78 chars)
      journal => protected'Ecological Indicators' (21 chars)
      year => protected2024 (integer)
      volume => protected159 (integer)
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      startpage => protected'111652 (10 pp.)' (15 chars)
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      categories => protected'biological indices; macroinvertebrate species richness; IBCH index; SPEARpes
         cticides index; climate change; water quality assessment' (132 chars)
      description => protected'Increasing temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change are leading t
         o changes in the composition of local communities across biomes. This has im
         plications for ecological assessment methods that rely on macroinvertebrates
          as bioindicators of water quality. To investigate the influence of changing
          water temperature on these assessment methods, we analysed macroinvertebrat
         e data from Swiss national monitoring programs. We used a species distributi
         on model to simulate temperature change effects on macroinvertebrate communi
         ties and estimated the resulting changes on three biological indices commonl
         y used in Switzerland, namely the species richness of Ephemeroptera, Plecopt
         era and Trichoptera (EPT), the Swiss biological (IBCH) index along with its 
         components, as well as the species at risk pesticides (SPEAR<sub>pesticides<
         /sub>) index. While results vary by temperature scenario and index, our mode
         l results for the most realistic water temperature increase scenario of + 
         2 °C across most sites in Switzerland suggest no, or only a minor, influen
         ce of temperature (not accounting for other hydrological changes). Our model
          projection predicted only a small increase in the probability of occurrence
          for 70 % of the studied families. The sensitivity to temperature as captur
         ed in our model is generally not very high and varies among the biological i
         ndices: on average across all sites, a + 2 °C increase in temperature re
         sulted in a 7 % increase in EPT species richness, a 4 % increase in the IB
         CH index, and a less than 1 % increase in the SPEAR<sub>pesticides</sub> in
         dex. Our study suggests the robustness of these biological indices to modera
         te warming and points towards the usefulness of these biological indices for
          the next few decades as tools for water quality assessment. Despite some li
         mitations of statistical species distribution models (e.g., not accounting f
         or dispersal limitation or biotic interactions, predictive performance varyi
         ng by taxon), the study ...' (2280 chars)
      serialnumber => protected'1470-160X' (9 chars)
      doi => protected'10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.111652' (29 chars)
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      authors => protected'Martinez,&nbsp;N.; Steiner,&nbsp;E.; Roth,&nbsp;T.; Ilg,&nbsp;C.; Schuwirth,
         &nbsp;N.' (84 chars)
      title => protected'Zeitliche Veränderung der blau-grünen Biodiversität. Artenzunahmen bei gl
         eichzeitiger Homogenisierung' (104 chars)
      journal => protected'Aqua & Gas' (10 chars)
      year => protected2025 (integer)
      volume => protected105 (integer)
      issue => protected'7+8' (3 chars)
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      description => protected'Die Studie dokumentiert gegenläufige Trends der α- und β-Diversität in z
         ehn aquatischen und terrestrischen Artengruppen der Schweiz. Während die α
         -Diversität in den aquatischen und terrestrischen Gruppen zunimmt, nimmt di
         e β-Diversität mehrheitlich ab. Diese Entwicklungen deuten darauf hin, das
         s sich häufige Arten eher ausbreiten, während seltene Arten meist nicht vo
         n dieser Zunahme profitieren.' (409 chars)
      serialnumber => protected'2235-5197' (9 chars)
      doi => protected'' (0 chars)
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      authors => protected'Gebert,&nbsp;F.; Bollmann,&nbsp;K.; Siber,&nbsp;R.; Schuwirth,&nbsp;N.' (70 chars)
      title => protected'Zeitliche Trends von Makroinvertebraten. Kantonale und nationale Monitoringd
         aten im Vergleich' (93 chars)
      journal => protected'Aqua & Gas' (10 chars)
      year => protected2022 (integer)
      volume => protected102 (integer)
      issue => protected'10' (2 chars)
      startpage => protected'76' (2 chars)
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      description => protected'Daten zur zeitlichen Entwicklung der Vielfalt wirbelloser Kleinlebewesen in 
         Fliessgewässern verschiedener Kantone werden den nationalen Datensätzen BD
         M und NAWA gegenübergestellt. Bis auf wenige Ausnahmen zeigt sich eine auf 
         kantonaler und nationaler Ebene einheitliche Entwicklung: Vor allem die Anza
         hl pestizidtoleranter Familien und wärmeliebender Arten pro Probenahmestand
         ort nimmt in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu. Mögliche Ursachen dieses Trends si
         nd der Klimawandel sowie eine verbesserte Gewässerqualität.' (517 chars)
      serialnumber => protected'2235-5197' (9 chars)
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      authors => protected'Gebert,&nbsp;F.; Obrist,&nbsp;M.&nbsp;K.; Siber,&nbsp;R.; Altermatt,&nbsp;F.
         ; Bollmann,&nbsp;K.; Schuwirth,&nbsp;N.' (115 chars)
      title => protected'Recent trends in stream macroinvertebrates: warm-adapted and pesticide-toler
         ant taxa increase in richness' (105 chars)
      journal => protected'Biology Letters' (15 chars)
      year => protected2022 (integer)
      volume => protected18 (integer)
      issue => protected'3' (1 chars)
      startpage => protected'20210513 (7 pp.)' (16 chars)
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      categories => protected'aquatic insects; climate change; land-use; SPEARPesticide index; temperature
          niche; temporal trends' (99 chars)
      description => protected'Recently, a plethora of studies reporting insect declines has been published
         . Even though the common theme is decreasing insect richness, positive trend
         s have also been documented. Here, we analysed nationwide, systematic monito
         ring data on aquatic insect richness collected at 438 sites in Switzerland f
         rom 2010 to 2019. In addition to taxonomic richness, we grouped taxa in acco
         rdance with their ecological preferences and functional traits to gain a bet
         ter understanding of trends and possible underlying mechanisms. We found tha
         t in general, richness of aquatic insects remained stable or increased with 
         time. Warm-adapted taxa, common feeding guilds and pesticide-tolerant taxa s
         howed increasing patterns while cold-adapted, rarer feeding guilds and pesti
         cide-sensitive taxa displayed stable trends. Both climate and land-use-relat
         ed factors were the most important explanatory variables for the patterns of
          aquatic insect richness. Although our data cover the last decade only, our 
         results suggest that recent developments in insect richness are context-depe
         ndent and affect functional groups differently. However, longer investigatio
         ns and a good understanding of the baseline are important to reveal if the i
         ncrease in temperature- and pesticide-tolerant species will lead to a decrea
         se in specialized species and a homogenization of biotic communities in the 
         long term.' (1378 chars)
      serialnumber => protected'1744-9561' (9 chars)
      doi => protected'10.1098/rsbl.2021.0513' (22 chars)
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      authors => protected'Schuwirth,&nbsp;N.' (18 chars)
      title => protected'Towards an integrated surface water quality assessment: aggregation over mul
         tiple pollutants and time' (101 chars)
      journal => protected'Water Research' (14 chars)
      year => protected2020 (integer)
      volume => protected186 (integer)
      issue => protected'' (0 chars)
      startpage => protected'116330 (11 pp.)' (15 chars)
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      categories => protected'uncertainty; surface water quality; integrated assessment; multi-criteria de
         cision analysis; river basin management; micropollutants; visualization' (147 chars)
      description => protected'Surface water quality management requires foresighted decision making regard
         ing long-term investments. It should consider multiple objectives (e.g. rela
         ted to different pollutants and costs), integrate multiple sources of pollut
         ion (point and diffuse sources), and external conditions that change over ti
         me (climate, population and land-use changes). Multi-attribute value theory 
         can support such decisions, especially the development of an assessment meth
         od. Integrated surface water quality assessment methods including micropollu
         tants are currently lacking or in development in many countries. Important s
         teps for the development of such an immission oriented and integrated surfac
         e water quality assessment method are discussed in this paper and exemplifie
         d for organic micropollutants. The proposed assessment method goes beyond si
         mple pass-fail criteria for single substances. It provides a continuous asse
         ssment on a scale from zero to one based on five color-coded water quality c
         lasses and suggestions for the visualization of assessment results. It takes
          into account the toxicity of the micropollutants and their mixture to aquat
         ic organisms by comparing measured concentrations to environmental quality s
         tandards (EQS). The focus of this paper is on aggregation over multiple subs
         tances and time. Advantages and disadvantages of different aggregation metho
         ds are discussed as well as their implications for practice. The consequence
         s of different aggregation methods are illustrated with didactical examples 
         and by an application of the proposed water quality assessment method to pes
         ticide monitoring data from Switzerland. Recommendations are provided that a
         ccount for the purpose of the assessment. Furthermore, the paper illustrates
          how the proposed method can facilitate dealing with uncertainty and a trans
         parent communication of monitoring results to support water quality manageme
         nt decisions.' (1913 chars)
      serialnumber => protected'0043-1354' (9 chars)
      doi => protected'10.1016/j.watres.2020.116330' (28 chars)
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      authors => protected'Küry,&nbsp;D.; Stucki,&nbsp;P.; Martinez,&nbsp;N.; Roth,&nbsp;T.; Schuwirth
         ,&nbsp;N.; Michel,&nbsp;C.; Schindler Wildhaber,&nbsp;Y.' (132 chars)
      title => protected'Vom IBCH zum IBCH_2019. Methoden-Update des Moduls "Makrozoobenthos Stufe F"
          im Modul-Stufen-Konzept' (100 chars)
      journal => protected'Aqua & Gas' (10 chars)
      year => protected2019 (integer)
      volume => protected99 (integer)
      issue => protected'12' (2 chars)
      startpage => protected'47' (2 chars)
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      description => protected'Der Schweizer Makrozoobenthos-Index IBCH geniesst für die Zustandsbewertung
          von Fliessgewässern bei den Kantonen eine hohe Akzeptanz. In den letzten z
         ehn Jahren zeigte sich aber, dass nicht nur anthropogene Faktoren die Bewert
         ung beeinflussen, sondern auch natürliche wie die Höhenlage oder die bioge
         ografische Region. Basierend auf einer Analyse der bisherigen Ergebnisse wur
         de der IBCH_2019 entwickelt, der diese Mängel korrigiert und eine plausible
         re Bewertung der Gewässer erlaubt.' (491 chars)
      serialnumber => protected'2235-5197' (9 chars)
      doi => protected'' (0 chars)
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      authors => protected'Schuwirth,&nbsp;N.; Caradima,&nbsp;B.; Schindler Wildhaber,&nbsp;Y.; Sarbach
         -Remund,&nbsp;N.' (92 chars)
      title => protected'Analyse schweizweiter Makrozoobenthosdaten. Erkenntnisse über anthropogene 
         Einflüsse und Monitoring-Design' (108 chars)
      journal => protected'Aqua & Gas' (10 chars)
      year => protected2019 (integer)
      volume => protected99 (integer)
      issue => protected'12' (2 chars)
      startpage => protected'55' (2 chars)
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      description => protected'Mit einem statistischen Modell wurden schweizweite Monitoringdaten über die
          Zusammensetzung von Makrozoobenthosgemeinschaften in Schweizer Fliessgewäs
         sern ausgewertet. Temperatur, Landwirtschaft und Hydromorphologie wurden dab
         ei als wichtige Einflussfaktoren im Modell identifiziert. Arten aus der glei
         chen Familie reagieren in vielen Fällen unterschiedlich auf natürliche und
          menschliche Umwelteinflüsse. Neben der taxonomischen Auflösung wirkt sich
          auch die Stellenauswahl auf die Aussagekraft der Resultate aus.' (520 chars)
      serialnumber => protected'2235-5197' (9 chars)
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      authors => protected'Kuemmerlen,&nbsp;M.; Reichert,&nbsp;P.; Siber,&nbsp;R.; Schuwirth,&nbsp;N.' (74 chars)
      title => protected'Ecological assessment of river networks: from reach to catchment scale' (70 chars)
      journal => protected'Science of the Total Environment' (32 chars)
      year => protected2019 (integer)
      volume => protected650 (integer)
      issue => protected'' (0 chars)
      startpage => protected'1613' (4 chars)
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      categories => protected'ecological state assessment; morphology; nutrients; micropollutants; restora
         tion strategy; environmental management' (115 chars)
      description => protected'Freshwater ecosystems are increasingly under threat as they are confronted w
         ith multiple anthropogenic impairments. This calls for comprehensive managem
         ent strategies to counteract, or even prevent, long-term impacts on habitats
          and their biodiversity, as well as on their ecological functions and servic
         es. The basis for the efficient management and effective conservation of any
          ecosystem is sufficient knowledge on the state of the system and its respon
         se to external influence factors. In freshwater ecosystems, state informatio
         n is currently drawn from ecological assessments at the reach or site scale.
          While these assessments are essential, they are not sufficient to assess th
         e expected outcome of different river restoration strategies, because they d
         o not account for important characteristics of the whole river network, such
          as habitat connectivity or headwater reachability. This is of particular im
         portance for the spatial prioritization of restoration measures. River resto
         ration could be supported best by integrative catchment-scale ecological ass
         essments that are sensitive to the spatial arrangement of river reaches and 
         barriers. Assessments at this scale are of increasing interest to environmen
         tal managers and conservation practitioners to prioritize restoration measur
         es or to locate areas worth protecting. We present an approach based on deci
         sion support methods that integrates abiotic and biotic ecological assessmen
         ts at the reach-scale and aggregates them spatially to describe the ecologic
         al state of entire catchments. This aggregation is based on spatial criteria
          that represent important ecological catchment properties, such as fish migr
         ation potential, resilience, fragmentation and habitat diversity in a spatia
         lly explicit way.We identify the most promising assessment criteria from dif
         ferent alternatives based on theoretical considerations and a comparison wit
         h biological indicators. Potential applications are discussed, particularly 
         for supporting the strat...' (2076 chars)
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      authors => protected'Reichert,&nbsp;P.; Niederberger,&nbsp;K.; Rey,&nbsp;P.; Helg,&nbsp;U.; Haert
         el-Borer,&nbsp;S.' (93 chars)
      title => protected'The need for unconventional value aggregation techniques: experiences from e
         liciting stakeholder preferences in environmental management' (136 chars)
      journal => protected'EURO Journal on Decision Processes' (34 chars)
      year => protected2019 (integer)
      volume => protected7 (integer)
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      categories => protected'environmental decision support; stakeholder involvement; elicitation; value 
         function; objectives hierarchy; non-additive aggregation' (132 chars)
      description => protected'Despite the large literature about non-additive value aggregation techniques
         , in the large majority of applied decision support processes, additive valu
         e aggregation functions are used. The main reasons for this may be the simpl
         icity of the approach, minimum elicitation requirements, software availabili
         ty, and the appeal of the underlying preference independence concepts that m
         ay be strengthened by an adequate choice of sub-objectives and attributes. H
         owever, in an applied decision support process, the decision maker(s) or the
          stakeholders decide on the sub-objectives and attributes to characterize th
         e state of a system and they have to provide information that allows the dec
         ision analyst to express their preferences as a value function of these attr
         ibutes. It is the task of the decision analyst to find the parameterization 
         and parameter values of a value function that fits best the expressed prefer
         ences. We describe a value function elicitation process for the ideal morpho
         logical state of a lake shore, performed with stakeholders from federal and 
         cantonal authorities and from environmental consulting companies in Switzerl
         and. This process led to the elicitation of strongly non-additive and partly
          even non-concave value aggregation functions. The objective of this paper i
         s to raise the awareness about the importance of carefully testing the assum
         ptions underlying parameterized (often additive) value aggregation technique
         s during the preferences elicitation process and to be flexible regarding ev
         aluating value functions that deviate from the often used additive aggregati
         on scheme. This can lead to a higher confidence that additive aggregation is
          suitable for the specific decision problem or to the selection of alternati
         ve aggregation techniques that better represent the decision maker’s prefe
         rences in case additivity is violated.' (1862 chars)
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      authors => protected'Michel,&nbsp;C.; Schindler Wildhaber,&nbsp;Y.; Leib,&nbsp;V.; Remund,&nbsp;N
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      title => protected'Überarbeitung des Makrozoobenthos-Index. Natürliche Einflussfaktoren, Ursa
         che-Wirkungsanalyse und Diskussion des Spear-Index' (126 chars)
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      description => protected'Die Makrozoobenthos-Erhebungsmethode des Modul-Stufen-Konzepts (MSK) wird br
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         tungen der Anwender und Anwenderinnen. Um die Verlässlichkeit zu steigern, 
         
         
         llen auf Schweizer Daten getestet und die Ergebnisse publiziert werden.' (451 chars)
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      authors => protected'Reichert,&nbsp;P.; Langhans,&nbsp;S.&nbsp;D.; Lienert,&nbsp;J.; Schuwirth,&n
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      title => protected'The conceptual foundation of environmental decision support' (59 chars)
      journal => protected'Journal of Environmental Management' (35 chars)
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      categories => protected'multi-criteria decision analysis; environmental management; societal decisio
         n support; stakeholder involvement; intersubjective probabilities; multi-att
         ribute value theory; multi-attribute utility theory; uncertainty; river mana
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      description => protected'Environmental decision support intends to use the best available scientific 
         knowledge to help decision makers find and evaluate management alternatives.
          The goal of this process is to achieve the best fulfillment of societal obj
         ectives. This requires a careful analysis of (i) how scientific knowledge ca
         n be represented and quantified, (ii) how societal preferences can be descri
         bed and elicited, and (iii) how these concepts can best be used to support c
         ommunication with authorities, politicians, and the public in environmental 
         management. The goal of this paper is to discuss key requirements for a conc
         eptual framework to address these issues and to suggest how these can best b
         e met. We argue that a combination of probability theory and scenario planni
         ng with multi-attribute utility theory fulfills these requirements, and disc
         uss adaptations and extensions of these theories to improve their applicatio
         n for supporting environmental decision making. With respect to (i) we sugge
         st the use of intersubjective probabilities, if required extended to impreci
         se probabilities, to describe the current state of scientific knowledge. To 
         address (ii), we emphasize the importance of value functions, in addition to
          utilities, to support decisions under risk. We discuss the need for testing
          "non-standard" value aggregation techniques, the usefulness of flexibility 
         of value functions regarding attribute data availability, the elicitation of
          value functions for sub-objectives from experts, and the consideration of u
         ncertainty in value and utility elicitation. With respect to (iii), we outli
         ne a well-structured procedure for transparent environmental decision suppor
         t that is based on a clear separation of scientific prediction and societal 
         valuation. We illustrate aspects of the suggested methodology by its applica
         tion to river management in general and with a small, didactical case study 
         on spatial river rehabilitation prioritization.' (1947 chars)
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      authors => protected'Langhans,&nbsp;S.&nbsp;D.; Reichert,&nbsp;P.; Schuwirth,&nbsp;N.' (64 chars)
      title => protected'The method matters: a guide for indicator aggregation in ecological assessme
         nts' (79 chars)
      journal => protected'Ecological Indicators' (21 chars)
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      categories => protected'Water Framework Directive; aggregation; multi-criteria decision analysis; mu
         lti-attribute value theory; one-out all-out; river assessment' (137 chars)
      description => protected'Ecological assessment requires the integration of many physical, chemical, a
         nd/or biological quality elements. The choice of the aggregation method of s
         uch partial assessments into an overall assessment can considerably affect t
         he assessment outcome – an issue that has been controversially discussed w
         ithin the scientific community for the last decade. Current practice often c
         onsiders only two different aggregation methods, the weighted arithmetic mea
         n (additive aggregation) and the one-out, all-out method (minimum aggregatio
         n). However, both have important drawbacks. Additive aggregation compensates
          a bad status of one quality element by a number of elements featuring good 
         status. Minimum aggregation can lead to overly pessimistic assessment result
         s, since only the quality element in the worst status is considered. Here, w
         e introduce a toolbox containing current and new aggregation methods, demons
         trate and discuss their properties with simple, didactical examples, and sug
         gest in which situations best to use them. Then, we illustrate the consequen
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          case study of the Swiss Modular Concept of stream assessment (SMC), which w
         e apply to ten river reaches in the Mönchaltdorfer Aa catchment in Switzerl
         and. To be able to do so, we used multi-criteria decision analysis, i.e., mu
         lti-attribute value theory, to arrange the SMC quality elements into an obje
         ctives hierarchy, and to translate their individual assessments into value f
         unctions. Our case study revealed that choosing the most appropriate aggrega
         tion method particularly matters, if objectives with significantly different
          qualities are aggregated. We argue that redundant objectives (i.e., quality
          elements), often found at the lower levels of the objectives hierarchy, sho
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         statistical significance of the results. Further, we suggest that complement
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      authors => protected'Langhans,&nbsp;S.&nbsp;D.; Lienert,&nbsp;J.; Schuwirth,&nbsp;N.; Reichert,&n
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      title => protected'How to make river assessments comparable: a demonstration for hydromorpholog
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      description => protected'River monitoring and assessment programs are important tools to quantify the
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         g site-specific assessments into broader scale assessments, and supporting r
         iver management decisions. We present a multi-criteria decision analysis app
         roach for improving the comparability of ecological assessment methods of di
         fferent origin and for combining these assessments into a joint procedure. T
         he approach consists of seven consecutive steps. The most central ones conce
         rn the hierarchical allocation of ecological assessment endpoints, and the h
         armonization of the scoring procedure of attributes (ecological indicators o
         r assets) to a common scale from 0 to 1. We demonstrate the approach integra
         ting three programs developed to assess the hydromorphological river conditi
         on in Switzerland, Germany, and the USA. In our example, the integrated asse
         ssment produces comparable results for the whole range from natural to impac
         ted rivers, while data continuity with original assessments was maintained. 
         Our approach provides a common assessment standard due to the definition of 
         the minimum amount of information required, is flexible regarding measuremen
         t and assessment endpoints, and bridges the gap between river quality assess
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      authors => protected'Reichert,&nbsp;P.; Schuwirth,&nbsp;N.; Langhans,&nbsp;S.' (56 chars)
      title => protected'Constructing, evaluating and visualizing value and utility functions for dec
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      categories => protected'decision support; multi-criteria decision analysis; value functions; utility
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      description => protected'Formal methods of decision analysis can help to structure a decision making 
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         g the preferences of decision makers or stakeholders. Common multi-attribute
          decision analysis software products support such decision making processes 
         but they can often not represent complex preference structures and visualize
          uncertainty induced by uncertain predictions of the consequences of decisio
         n alternatives. To stimulate strengthening these aspects in decision support
          processes, we propose a set of visualization tools and provide a software p
         ackage for constructing, evaluating and visualizing value and utility functi
         ons. In these tools we emphasize flexibility in value aggregation schemes an
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         e tools is demonstrated with an illustrative example of river management dec
         ision support.' (1078 chars)
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      authors => protected'Schlosser,&nbsp;J.&nbsp;A.; Haertel-Borer,&nbsp;S.; Liechti,&nbsp;P.; Reiche
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      title => protected'Konzept für die Untersuchung und Beurteilung der Seen in der Schweiz. <em>A
         nleitung zur Entwicklung und Anwendung von Beurteilungsmethoden</em>' (144 chars)
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      categories => protected'Lake assessment; concept; decision-making support; module development' (69 chars)
      description => protected'This publication describes the concept for the ecological assessment of the 
         condition of Switzerland's lakes. It is published as part of the FOEN «Envi
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         tepwise procedure for studying and assessing surface bodies of water. It des
         cribes the use of instruments supporting the decision-making process in the 
         development and application of modules for assessing the condition of lakes,
          and provides an overview of the priorities in the area of module developmen
         t.' (534 chars)
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      authors => protected'Langhans,&nbsp;S.&nbsp;D.; Reichert,&nbsp;P.' (44 chars)
      title => protected'Einbettung von Verfahren zur Fliessgewässerbewertung in ein übergeordnetes
          Gewässermanagementkonzept. Vorschläge am Beispiel des Modulstufenkonzepts' (152 chars)
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      authors => protected'Reichert,&nbsp;P.; Schuwirth,&nbsp;N.; Langhans,&nbsp;S.&nbsp;D.' (64 chars)
      title => protected'MCWM – Ein Konzept für multikriterielle Entscheidungsunterstützung im Wa
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      description => protected'Das per 1.1.2011 in Kraft getretene revidierte Gewässerschutzgesetz bringt 
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         talisierung morphologisch beeinträchtigter Gewässer und der Verminderung n
         egativer Auswirkungen von Wasserkraftanlagen auf Gewässerökosysteme. Da au
         ch neue Finanzierungsquellen erschlossen werden, sind diese neuen oder verst
         ärkten Verpflichtungen eine grosse Chance für die ökologische Aufwertung 
         der schweizerischen Gewässersysteme. Ähnliche Anforderungen an das Gewäss
         ermanagement wurden auch im Ausland etabliert, etwa in der Europäischen Uni
         on durch die Wasserrahmenrichtlinie (WFD, 2000). Das Ziel des Gewässermanag
         
         ' (815 chars)
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