Collective decision-making under uncertainty: Pollination service provided by Australian bees

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Pollination service provided by Australian bees

MORE THAN HONEY: THE FUTURE OF THE AUSTRALIAN HONEY BEE AND POLLINATION INDUSTRIES

Chapter two of the report cited a 2003 report by RIRDC "Valuing honeybee pollination", which put the value of the honeybee pollination services to Australian agriculture as between $0.6 and $1.2 billion.

HT: Treehugger

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My name is Shuang Liu and I work for CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences as a research scientist. Three key words that summarize my background are: problem-solving, the science-policy interface, and interdiciplinarity.

Trained as an ecological economist as a PhD student (Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont), I take solving real-world problems as the ultimate goal of my research (and yes, they did tell me publication is also important). So I have been working at the science-policy interface (so far mostly in the areas of ecosystem services and biological invasions) with my knowledge and training in biology, ecology, economics, public participation, and group facilitation.

Looking into the future, what intrigues me most is how we make collective decisions under uncertainty. Just think about our experience so far with GMOs, biological invasions, and of course climate change... This blog records the journal of my research in this direction.