Paper bridging DMDU and probabilistic frameworks published in Earth's Future
A subjective Bayesian framework for synthesizing deep uncertainties in climate risk management
Our paper titled “a subjective Bayesian framework for synthesizing deep uncertainties in climate risk management” was just published in the journal Earth’s Future 1.
Projections of future climate risks can vary considerably from one source to another, posing considerable communication and decision-analytical challenges. One such challenge is how to present trade-offs under deep uncertainty in a salient and interpretable manner. Some common approaches include analyzing a small subset of projections or invoking Laplace’s principle of insufficient reason to justify a simple average. These approaches can underestimate risks, hide deep uncertainties, and provide little insight into which assumptions drive decision-relevant outcomes. Here we introduce and demonstrate a transparent Bayesian framework for synthesizing deep uncertainties to inform climate risk management. The first step of this workflow is to generate an ensemble of simulations representing possible futures and analyze them through standard exploratory modeling techniques. Next, a small set of probability distributions representing subjective beliefs about the likelihood of possible futures is used to weight the scenarios. Finally, these weights are used to compute and characterize trade-offs, conduct robustness checks, and reveal implicit assumptions. We demonstrate the framework through a didactic case study analyzing how high to elevate a house to manage coastal flood risks.
@online{doss-gollin_subjective:2022,
title = {A Subjective {{Bayesian}} Framework for Synthesizing Deep Uncertainties in Climate Risk Management},
author = {Doss-Gollin, James and Keller, Klaus},
date = {2022-06-07},
eprinttype = {Earth and Space Science Open Archive},
doi = {10.1002/essoar.10511798.3},
url = {http://www.essoar.org/doi/10.1002/essoar.10511798.2},
urldate = {2022-07-06},
pubstate = {preprint}
}
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