Collective decision-making under uncertainty: Embracing invasives

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Embracing invasives

to create novel ecosystems in the Galápagos (Science).

1 comment:

fnkykntr said...: Hi Shuang, what do you think of this general movement in the literature that seems to be re-defining the way we view invasives and alien species? Just noticed you blogged about this before I did, I just wrote a post with some of my thoughts: http://cane-toad.blogspot.com/2011/03/embracing-invasives.html; March 30, 2011 at 2:14 PM

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.