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Improving decision making for carbon management initiatives
This paper by Victoria Campbell-Arvai, Lisa Kenney, Joe Arvai and I reviews five challenges faced during decision making about carbon management initiatives. The first of these challenges deals with behavioral and perceptual obstacles, which often leads to the introduction of systematic biases during decision making. The remaining four obstacles deal with the complexity associated with… Read more
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A helpful guide to our Organic Weed Control Decision-Making Tool
Other than my name being misspelled, this helpful DSF fact sheet introduces users to our weed management decision support tool. To check it out go to http://www.organicweedmanager.com or read our paper in Weed Science! Read more
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The Perceived Risk of Underwater Oil Pipelines and Spills Under Ice
Thought I’d make my slides from ERSS 2019 available here. ERSS_O7.6_Presentation_Bessette_v4 Read more
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An online decision support tool to evaluate ecological weed management strategies
Weeds remain the most commonly cited concern of organic farmers. Without the benefit of synthetic herbicides, organic farmers must rely on a host of ecological weed management (EWM) practices to control weeds. Despite EWM’s ability to improve soil quality, the perceived rate of integrated EWM strategy adoption remains low. This low adoption is likely a… Read more
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Most Michigan residents are concerned about Line 5 spilling into Mackinac Straits
On Friday, February 22nd, Grant Gunn and I, colleagues on an IPPSR MAPPR grant looking at the Line 5 underwater oil pipeline, spoke with Arnold Weinfeld and Charles Ballard on WKAR’s MSU Today with Russ White Podcast. Hear what we had to say and read about work here. You can also download the MSU Today… Read more
Doug Bessette, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University
Energy Values Lab 