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Research Interests
- Decision making for risk management questions
- Judgmental aspects of ecological risk management questions, as well as technical and value modeling for complex facilities
- Decision analysis in the public sector
- Methods for eliciting public values
- Decision research, including risk perception
- Citizen involvement in complex issues involving scientific uncertainty
- Global change, infrastructure decisions, human health from environmental contaminants
Current Research
- Structuring hierarchies of objectives for aquaculture risk management decisions
- Values and decision processes for global environmental change
- Modeling of the ecological footprint of North America as a non-monetary measure of consumption
- Prescriptive approaches to decision making
- Equity and compensation for losses on First Nations lands: valuing non-marginal change
Current Courses Taught
- PLAN 599 - Managing Environmental Risks
- PLAN 548T- Decision Insights for Policy Analysis and Planning
Other Courses Taught
- Ecological risk assessment
Selected
Publications
2006 McDaniels,T., H. Longstaff and H. Dowlatabadi, 2006, "A Value-based framework for risk management decisions involving multiple scales: a salmon aquaculture example" Environmental Science and Policy, in press.
Chang, S. E., T. L. McDaniels, J. Mikawoz and K. Peterson, 2006,, “Infrastructure failure interactions in extreme events: the 1998 Ice Storm” Natural Hazards, in press.
Gerwing, K. and T. McDaniels, 2006, “ Listening to the Salmon People: First Nations’ objectives for salmon aquaculture decisions”. Society and Natural Resources 19. 3, pp 259-273 (March 2006).
2005 Gregory, R. B. Fischhoff, and T. McDaniels, 2005, “ Acceptable Input: Using Decision Analysis to Guide Public Policy Decisions” Decision Analysis, 2, 1, pp. 4-16.
McDaniels, T. and W. Trousdale, 2005, “Evaluating Losses of Traditional Native Values With Multi-attribute Value Assessment” Ecological Economics, 55, 2, pp. 173-186.
Hamouda, L., K. W. Hipel, D. M. Kilgour, D. J. Noakes, L. Fang, and T. McDaniels, 2005 “The salmon aquaculture conflict in British Columbia: A Graph Model Analysis” Ocean & Coastal Management, 48, 7-8, pp.571-587.
McDaniels, T., H. Dowlatabadi, and S. Stevens, 2005, “Multiples and regulatory gaps in environmental change: the case of salmon aquaculture” Global Environmental Change, 15,1, pp9-21.
2004 McDaniels, T. and R. Gregory, 2004, “Learning as an objective within structured decision processes for managing environmental risks,” Environmental Science and Technology, 38, 7, 1921-1926.
2003 Senbel, M., T. McDaniels and H. Dowlatabadi, 2003, “The Ecological Footprint: A Non-Economic Metric of Human Consumption, As Applied to North America,” Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions, 13, 83-100. May.
McDaniels, T., R. Gregory, J. Arvai and R. Chuenpagdee , 2003, “Decision structuring to alleviate embedding in environmental valuation” , Ecological Economics, 46, 33-46. June.
2002 Arvai, J. L., T. McDaniels, and R. Gregory. Exploring a structured decision approach for fostering participatory space policy making at NASA. Space Policy, 18: 221-231.
Gregory, R., McDaniels, T., and Fields, D., "Decision aiding, Not Dispute Resolution: A New Perspective for Environmental Negotiation" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 20 (3) 415-432.
Arvai, J., Gregory, R., and McDaniels, T. "Testing a Structured Decision Approach: Value Focused Thinking for Deliberative Risk Communication," Risk Analysis, 21:6, 1065-1076.
Keeney, R. and McDaniels, T., "A Framework to Guide Thinking and Analysis about Climate Change Policies," Risk Analysis, 21: 6, 989-1000
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Tim McDaniels
Professor
Director - Eco-Risk Research Unit , FOGS, Adjunct Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
B.A. Economics, 1970, University of Minnesota,
M.A. Economics, 1974, Simon Fraser University,
Ph.D. Decision sciences and policy analysis, 1989, Carnegie Mellon University.
Institute of Resources and Environment
School of Community and Regional Planning
Faculty of Graduate Studies
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