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Policy advice: Use experts wisely

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  • William J. Sutherland

    (University of Cambridge, UK.)

  • Mark Burgman

    (Mark Burgman is professor of botany and managing director of the Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.)

Abstract

Policymakers are ignoring evidence on how advisers make judgements and predictions, warn William J. Sutherland and Mark A. Burgman.

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  • William J. Sutherland & Mark Burgman, 2015. "Policy advice: Use experts wisely," Nature, Nature, vol. 526(7573), pages 317-318, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:526:y:2015:i:7573:d:10.1038_526317a
    DOI: 10.1038/526317a
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    2. Phoebe Koundouri & Georgios I. Papayiannis & Achilleas Vassilopoulos & Athanasios N. Yannacopoulos, 2023. "Probabilistic Scenario-Based Assessment of National Food Security Risks with Application to Egypt and Ethiopia," Papers 2312.04428, arXiv.org, revised Dec 2023.
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    4. Jeremy Rohmer & Eric Chojnacki, 2021. "Forecast of environment systems using expert judgements: performance comparison between the possibilistic and the classical model," Environment Systems and Decisions, Springer, vol. 41(1), pages 131-146, March.
    5. Noam Obermeister, 2020. "Tapping into science advisers’ learning," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 6(1), pages 1-9, December.
    6. Yulia A. Krasheninnikova, 2019. "The Problems of Ensuring the Quality of Experts’ Work: the Case of Media Content Evaluation in the Russian Federation," Administrative Consulting, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. North-West Institute of Management., issue 3.
    7. Francesc Trillas Jané, 2016. "Behavioral Regulatory Agencies," Working Papers wpdea1606, Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona.
    8. Rim Lassoued & Hayley Hesseln & Peter W. B. Phillips & Stuart J. Smyth, 2020. "Effects of information presentation on regulatory decisions for products of biotechnology," EURO Journal on Decision Processes, Springer;EURO - The Association of European Operational Research Societies, vol. 8(3), pages 151-175, November.
    9. Robin Fears & Claudia Canales Holzeis & Volker ter Meulen, 2020. "Designing inter-regional engagement to inform cohesive policy making," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 6(1), pages 1-5, December.
    10. Vicki Bier, 2020. "The Role of Decision Analysis in Risk Analysis: A Retrospective," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 40(S1), pages 2207-2217, November.

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