SEER

 

The Social, Economic and Environmental Research (SEER) project into Multi-Objective Land Use Decision Making seeks to fundamentally improve option analysis and policy formation with respect to any area of decision making linked either directly or indirectly to the natural environment. Because of the ubiquitous nature of this field, SEER challenges existing approaches to decision making across a wide swath of policy and business community activities.

The project takes the principles of scientific method and economic theory which underpins the so-called ‘ecosystem services’ approach to decision making and blends these to yield the coherent methodology, integrated analyses, and analytic tools required to implement this approach in practice. No policy making system can ever hope to use scarce resources wisely unless it understands the full implications of the decisions it takes.

This becomes a major challenge when we consider policy for complex resources such as the natural environment. The Social, Economic and Environmental Research (SEER) programme seeks to directly address that complexity by looking at the major impacts which occur when land use policy is altered.

By applying advanced analysis techniques to highly detailed datasets comprising spatially detailed information gathered over extended periods SEER examines the multiple effects which occur when land use changes. Specifically it looks at the effects upon:

• Food production

• Farm incomes

• Greenhouse gases (GHG)

• Water pollution

• Habitat and ecological effects

• Biodiversity

• Outdoor recreation

 

Key objectives of SEER include examination of linkages between effects, the development of decision support tools and feedbacks. This project started on 1 April 2010 and will run to 31 March 2015.

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