Selected papers on Environmental Decision Making and Participation

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Environmental decision making and participation at SAL

I. Policy and participation processes
II. Decision analytic methods and biases
III. Preference programming approach
IV. e-Participation
V. Systems intelligence and sustainable decisions
VI. Dynamic game analysis in environmental management
VII. Game models of energy markets

I. Policy and participation processes

P[HAM10]: R.P. Hämäläinen, J. Mustajoki and M. Marttunen: Web-based Decision Support: Creating a Culture of Applying Multi-criteria Decision Analysis and Web Supported Participation in Environmental Decision Making In Rios-Insua D., French S. (eds.): e-Democracy: A Group Decision and Negotiation Perspective. Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation 5, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., Dordrecht, Holand, pp. 201-221. ISBN: 978-90-481-9044-7 Slides
P[GEL09]: J. Geldermann, V. Bertsch, M. Treitz, S. French, K.N. Papamichail, R.P. Hämäläinen: Multi-criteria Decision Support and Evaluation of Strategies for Nuclear Remediation Management, Omega, Volume 37, Issue 1, February 2009, Pages 238-251.
R[MAR08a]: M. Marttunen, J. Mustajoki, O-M Verta and R.P. Hämäläinen: Multicriteria evaluation in interactive environmental planning. Suomen Ympäristö 11/2008. Edita Prima Oy. (in Finnish)
P[MAR08]: M. Marttunen and R.P. Hämäläinen: The Decision Analysis Interview Approach in the Collaborative Management of a Large Regulated Water Course, Environmental Management, Vol. 42, 2008, pp. 1026-1042. Slides
R[SIN08]: K. Sinkko, M. Ammann, R.P. Hämäläinen and J. Mustajoki: A Participatory Method for Planning Countermeasures in Case of a Nuclear Accident. Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, STUK-A226, June 2008.
P[MUS07]: J. Mustajoki, R.P. Hämäläinen and K. Sinkko: Interactive Computer Support in Decision Conferencing: Two Cases on Off-site Nuclear Emergency Management, Decision Support Systems, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2007, pp. 2247-2260. Abstract Slides
P[MUT06]: R. Mustonen, K. Sinkko and R.P. Hämäläinen: Facilitated Workshop Method to Involve Stakeholders and Public in Decision-making Process in Radiological Emergencies, Proceedings of the VALDOR (VALues in Decisions On Risk) 2006 Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, May 14-18, 2006.
R[SIN05]: K. Sinkko, M. Ammann, R.P. Hämäläinen and J. Mustajoki: Facilitated workshop on clean-up actions in inhabited areas in Finland after an accidental release of radionuclides. Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, STUK-A214, December 2005.
P[SIN04]: K. Sinkko, R.P. Hämäläinen and R. Hänninen: Experiences in Methods to Involve Key Players in Planning Protective Actions in the Case of a Nuclear Accident, Radiation Protection Dosimetry (2004), Vol. 109, Nos 1-2, 2004, pp. 127-132 Abstract
R[AMM01]: M. Ammann, K. Sinkko, E. Kostiainen, A. Salo, K. Liskola, R.P. Hämäläinen and J. Mustajoki: Decision analysis of countermeasures for the milk pathway after an accidental release of radionuclides, Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, STUK-A186, December 2001, pp. 57. Abstract
R[HäM00]: R.P. Hämäläinen, K. Sinkko, M. Lindstedt, M. Ammann and A. Salo: Decision analysis interviews on protective actions in Finland supported by the RODOS system, Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, STUK-A173, February 2000, pp. 57. Also RODOS Report - Decision Support for Nuclear Emergencies, RODOS(WG7)-TN(99)-04. Abstract
P[HäM00a]: R.P. Hämäläinen, M. Lindstedt and K. Sinkko: Multi-attribute risk analysis in nuclear emergency management, Risk Analysis, Vol. 20 no. 4, 2000, pp. 455-468. Abstract PowerPoint-Presentation
P[MAR99]: M. Marttunen, E.A. Järvinen, J. Saukkonen and R.P. Hämäläinen: Regulation of Lake Päijänne - a learning process preceding decision-making, Finnish Journal of Water Economy, No. 6, 1999, pp. 29-37. (in Finnish) Abstract
P[MIE99]: P. Miettinen and R.P. Hämäläinen: Indexes for fixed and flexible environmental targe setting - A decision analytical perspective, International Journal of Environment and Pollution, Vol. 12, No. 2/3, 1999, pp. 147-164. Abstract
P[HäM96a]: R.P. Hämäläinen and O. Leikola: Spontaneous decision conferencing with top-level politicians, OR Insight, Vol. 9, Issue 1, 1996, pp. 24-28. Abstract
R[FRE96]: S. French, R. Finck, R.P. Hämäläinen, E.Naadland, J. Roed, A. Salo and K. Sinkko: Nordic decision conference: An exercise on on clean-up actions in an urban environment after a nuclear accident, Finnish Centre for Radiation and Nuclear Safety, STUK-A132, 1996.
P[MAR95]: M. Marttunen and R.P. Hämäläinen: Decision analysis interviews in environmental impact assessment, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 87, No. 3, 1995, pp. 551-563. Abstract
P[HäM92a]: R.P. Hämäläinen, R. Karjalainen: Decision support for risk analysis in energy policy, European Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 1992, pp. 172-183.
P[HÄM92c]: R.P. Hämäläinen: Decision analysis makes its way into environmental policy in Finland, OR/MS Today, June 1992, pp. 40-43'
P[HÄM91a]: R.P. Hämäläinen: Facts or values - how do parliamentarians and experts see nuclear power?, Energy Policy, Vol. 19, No. 5, June 1991, pp. 464-472.
P[HÄM90a]: R.P. Hämäläinen: A decision aid in the public debate on nuclear power, European Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 48, No. 1, September 1990, pp. 66-76.
P[HÄM88a]: R.P. Hämäläinen: Computer assisted energy policy analysis in the Parliament of Finland, Interfaces, Vol. 18, No. 4, 1988, pp. 12-23.
P[HäM86c]: R.P. Hämäläinen and T. Seppäläinen: The analytic network process in energy policy planning, Socio- Economic Planning Sciences, Vol.20, No. 6, 1986, pp. 399-405.

II. Decision analytic methods and biases

P[LAH17]: T. J. Lahtinen, J. H. A. Guillaume and R. P. Hämäläinen: Why pay attention to paths in the practice of environmental modelling? Environmental Modelling and Software, Vol. 92, pp. 74-81.
P[HAM16]: R. P. Hämäläinen and T. J. Lahtinen: Path Dependence in Operational Research - How the Modeling Process Can Influence the Results Operations Research Perspectives, Vol. 3, pp. 14-20
P[FRA16]: L.A. Franco and R.P. Hämäläinen: Behavioural operational research: Returning to the roots of the OR profession, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 249, Issue 3, pp 791-795.
P[FRA16a]: L.A. Franco and R.P. Hämäläinen: Engaging with behavioural OR: On methods, actors, and praxis. In Kunc, M, Malpass, J, White, L (ed) Behavioural operational research: Theory, methodology and practice:, pp.1-14, DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53551-1.
P[LAH16]: T.J. Lahtinen and R.P. Hämäläinen: Path dependence and biases in the even swaps decision analysis method European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 249, Issue 3, pp. 890-898
P[HAM15]: R.P. Hämäläinen: Behavioural issues in environmental modelling - the missing perspective, Environmental Modelling & Software, 73, pp. 244-253.
P[HäM08]: R.P. Hämäläinen and S. Alaja: The threat of weighting biases in environmental decision analysis, Ecological Economics, Vol. 68, 2008, pp. 556-569.
P[MUS06]: J. Mustajoki, R.P. Hämäläinen and M.R.K. Lindstedt: Using intervals for Global Sensitivity and Worst Case Analyses in Multiattribute Value Trees, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 174, No. 1, 2006, pp. 278-292. Abstract Slides
P[HäM04]: R.P. Hämäläinen: Reversing the perspective on the applications of decision analysis, Decision Analysis Mini Issue (The original article of Keefer and commentary articles), Vol. 1, No. 1, 2004, pp. 26-31.
P[PöY01a]: M. Pöyhönen and R.P. Hämäläinen: On the Convergence of Multiattribute Weighting Methods, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 129, No. 3, March 2001, pp. 569-585.
P[PöY01b]: M. Pöyhönen, H.C.J. Vrolijk and R.P. Hämäläinen: Behavioral and Procedural Consequences of Structural Variation in Value Trees, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 134/1, 2001, pp. 218-227.
P[SEP01]: J. Seppälä and R.P. Hämäläinen: On the Meaning of the Distance-to-Target Weighting Method in Life Cycle Impact Assessment, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2001, pp. 211-218.
P[PöY00]: M. Pöyhönen and R.P. Hämäläinen: There is hope in attribute weighting, INFOR, Vol. 38, no. 3, Aug. 2000, pp. 272-282. Abstract
P[PöY98]: M. Pöyhönen and R.P. Hämäläinen: Notes on the weighting biases in value trees, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Vol. 11, 1998, pp. 139-150. Abstract
P[SAL97]: A. Salo and R.P. Hämäläinen: On the measurement of preferences in the analytic hierarchy process, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Vol. 6, 1997, pp. 309-319.
P[HäM97a]: R.P. Hämäläinen and A. Salo: The issue is understanding the weights, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Vol. 6, 1997, pp. 340-343.
P[MIE97]: P. Miettinen and R.P. Hämäläinen: How to benefit from decision analysis in environmental life cycle assessment. European Journal of Operational Research, 102, 1997, pp. 279-294. Abstract PowerPoint-Presentation
P[HäM96b]: R.P. Hämäläinen and M. Pöyhönen: On-line group decision support by preference programming in traffic planning, Group Decision and Negotiation, Vol. 5, 1996, pp. 485-500. Abstract

III. Preference programming approach

P[SAL10a]: A. Salo and R.P. Hämäläinen: Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Group Decision Processes In: D.M. Kilgour and C. Eden (eds.), Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation, Springer, New York, 2010, pp. 269-283.
P[SAL10b]: A. Salo and R.P. Hämäläinen: Preference Programming - Multicriteria Weighting Models under Incomplete Information In: Zopounidis, C. and Pardalos, P.M. (eds.), Handbook of Multicriteria Decision Analysis, Springer, New York, 2009, due May 24, 2010, pp. 167-187.
P[MUS07]: J. Mustajoki and R.P. Hämäläinen: Smart-Swaps - Decision support for the Smart Choices process with the Even Swaps method. Decision Support Systems. Decision Support Systems, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2007, pp. 313-325. Slides
P[MUS06]: J. Mustajoki, R.P. Hämäläinen and M.R.K. Lindstedt: Using Intervals for Global Sensitivity and Worst Case Analyses in Multiattribute Value Trees, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 174, No. 1, 2006, pp. 278-292. Abstract Slides
P[MUS05]: J. Mustajoki, R.P. Hämäläinen, A. Salo: Decision Support by Interval SMART/SWING - Incorporating Imprecision in the SMART and SWING Methods, Decision Sciences, Vol. 36, No.2, 2005, pp. 317-339. Abstract Slides
P[MUS05b]: J. Mustajoki and R.P. Hämäläinen: A Preference Programming Approach to Make the Even Swaps Method Even Easier, Decision Analysis, Vol. 2, No.2, 2005, pp. 110-123. Abstract Slides
P[HäM96b]: R.P. Hämäläinen and M. Pöyhönen: On-line group decision support by preference programming in traffic planning, Group Decision and Negotiation, Vol. 5, 1996, pp. 485-500. Abstract
P[SAL95b]: A. Salo and R.P. Hämäläinen: Preference programming through approximate ratio comparisons, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 82, Issue 3, 1995, pp. 458-475.
P[HäM92b]: R.P. Hämäläinen, A. Salo and K. Pöysti: Observations about consensus seeking in a multiple criteria environment, Proc. of the Twenty-Fifth Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Hawaii, Vol. IV, January 1992, pp. 190-198.

IV. e-Participation

P[HAM06b]: R.P. Hämäläinen, J. Mustajoki and M. Marttunen: We have the tools - How to attract the people? Creating a culture of Web-based participation in environmental decision making. TED 06 - Towards e-Democracy: Participation, Deliberation, Communities, Mantova, Italy, October 24-26, 2006. Slides
C[MUS06]: J. Mustajoki and R.P. Hämäläinen: Decision support for the even swaps process with preference programming. OR48 Conference, Bath, United Kingdom, September 11-13, 2006. Slides
P[MUS04]: J. Mustajoki, R.P. Hämäläinen and M. Marttunen: Participatory multicriteria decision support with Web-HIPRE: A case of lake regulation policy, Environmental Modelling & Software, Vol. 19, No. 6, 2004, 537-547. Abstract
P[HäM03]: R.P. Hämäläinen: Decisionarium - Aiding Decisions, Negotiating and Collecting Opinions on the Web, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Vol. 12, 2003, 101-110. PowerPoint-Presentation
P[HäM01a]: R.P. Hämäläinen, E. Kettunen, M. Marttunen and H. Ehtamo: Evaluating a Framework for Multi-Stakeholder Decision Support in Water Resources Management, Group Decision and Negotiation, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 331-353, 2001. Abstract PowerPoint-Presentation
P[HäM01c]: R.P. Hämäläinen and J. Mäntysaari: A Dynamic Interval Goal Programming Approach to the Regulation of a Lake-River System, Journal of Multicriteria Decision Analysis, Vol. 10, Issue 2, March-April 2001, pp. 75-86. Abstract, Powerpoint-presentation
P[MUS00]: J. Mustajoki and R.P.Hämäläinen: Web-HIPRE: Global decision support by value tree and AHP analysis, INFOR, Vol. 38, no. 3, Aug. 2000, pp. 208-220. Abstract

V. Systems intelligence and sustainable decisions

P[SLO15]: S. Slotte and R.P. Hämäläinen: Decision Structuring Dialogue, EURO Journal on Decision Processes, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 141-159.
P[TOR16]: J. Törmänen, R.P. Hämäläinen and E. Saarinen: Systems Intelligence Inventory In: Learning Organization, vol . 23, 4, pp. 218-231.
P[HäM08b]: R.P. Hämäläinen, E. Saarinen: Systems Intelligence - The Way Forward? A Note on Ackoff's "Why Few Organizations Adopt Systems Thinking" Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 25, No. 6, 2008, pp. 821-825.
R[HäM007]: R. P. Hämäläinen, E. Saarinen (eds.): Systems Intelligence in Leadership and Everyday Life. Systems Analysis Laboratory, June 2007.
R[HäM04b]: R. P. Hämäläinen, E. Saarinen (eds.): Systems Intelligence - Discovering a hidden competence in human action and organizational life. Systems Analysis Laboratory Research Reports, A88, October 2004.
R[SAA04b]: E. Saarinen and R.P. Hämäläinen: Systems Intelligence: Connecting Engineering Thinking with Human Sensitivity, R. P. Hämäläinen, E. Saarinen (eds.). In Systems Intelligence - Discovering a Hidden Competence in Human Action and Organizational Life, Helsinki University of Technology, Systems Analysis Laboratory Research Reports A88, October 2004, 9-37.
R[SII04]: P. Siitonen and R.P. Hämäläinen: From Conflict Management to Systems Intelligence in Forest Conservation Decision Making, R. P. Hämäläinen, E. Saarinen (eds.). In Systems Intelligence - Discovering a Hidden Competence in Human Action and Organizational Life, Helsinki University of Technology, Systems Analysis Laboratory Research Reports A88, October 2004, 199-214.
R[SLO03]: S. Slotte and R.P. Hämäläinen: Decision structuring dialogue. Systems Analysis Laboratory Research Reports, E13, April 2003. Abstract. Slides

VI. Dynamic game analysis in environmental management

P[EHT95a]: H. Ehtamo and R.P. Hämäläinen: Credibility of linear equilibrium strategies in a discrete time fishery management game, Group Decision and Negotiation, 4, pp. 27-37, 1995.
P[HAM95a]: R.P. Hämäläinen: Introduction to the special issue on dynamic game modeling in bargaining and environmental negotiations, Group Decision and Negotiation, 4, pp. 5-7, 1995.
P[EHT93a]: H. Ehtamo and R.P. Hämäläinen: A cooperative incentive equilibrium for a resource management problem, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1993, pp. 659-678.
P[HAM90]: R.P. Hämäläinen, J. Ruusunen and V. Kaitala: Cartels and dynamic contracts in sharefishing, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 19, September 1990, pp. 175-192.
P[EHT88]: H. Ehtamo, J. Ruusunen, V. Kaitala and R.P. Hämäläinen: Solution for a dynamic bargaining problem with an application to resource management, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol.59, No.3, December, 1988, pp. 391-405.
P[HAM86a]: R.P. Hämäläinen, J. Ruusunen and V. Kaitala: Myopic Stackelberg equilibria and social coordination in a share contract fishery, Marine Resource Economics, Vol.3, No 3, 1986, pp. 209-235.
P[HAM85]: R.P. Hämäläinen, A. Haurie and V. Kaitala: Equilibria and threats in a fishery management game, Optimal Control, Applications and Methods, Vol. 6, 1985, pp. 315-333.
P[HAM84]: R.P. Hämäläinen, A. Haurie and V. Kaitala: Bargaining on whales: A differential game model with Pareto optimal equilibria, Operations Research Letters, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1984, pp. 5-11.
P[EHT92]: H. Ehtamo and R.P. Hämäläinen: On the credibility of linear equilibrium strategies in discrete time fishery management games, Proc. of the Fifth International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications, 1992.
P[HAM88]: R.P. Hämäläinen and V. Kaitala: Game theoretic analysis of the management of a divided fishery, Proc. of the Systems Analysis Approach to Environmental and Natural Resources Management in the Baltic Region, V. Vidal, A. Straszak and H. Ravn (eds.), Gdansk, The Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Operations Research, Poland, 26-29 September 1988, pp. 165-176.
P[KAI85]: V. Kaitala, R.P. Hämäläinen and J. Ruusunen: On the analysis of equilibria and bargaining in a fishery game, in: Optimal Control Theory and Economic Analysis 2, G. Feichtinger (ed.), Elsevier (1985), pp. 593- 606.
P[KAI85a]: V. Kaitala and R.P. Hämäläinen: On the role of dynamics and information in international negotiations: The case of fishery management, in: Plural Rationality and Interactive Decision Processes, M. Grauer, M. Thompson and A.P. Wierzbicki (eds.), Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Processes, Springer - Verlag, 1985, pp. 212-221.
P[HAM83]: R.P. Hämäläinen, J. Ruusunen and V. Kaitala: Modelling two agent renewable resource management under harvest share incentives, Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, India, 1983, pp. 737-741.
P[HAM82]: R.P. Hämäläinen and V. Kaitala: A game on the choice of policy variables in a dynamic resource management game, Proc. of the 21st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Vol. 1, Orlando, Florida Dec. 1982, pp. 181-185.
P[KAI81]: V. Kaitala and R.P. Hämäläinen: A differential game model of the non-cooperative management of an international fishery, Proc. of the First Int. Conference on Applied Modelling and Simulation, Lyon France, September 1981, Vol. V, pp. 183-186.

VII. Game models of energy markets

P[HAM00b]: R.P. Hämäläinen, J. Mäntysaari, J. Ruusunen and P-O. Pineau: Cooperative consumers in a deregulated electricity market - Dynamic consumption strategies and price coordination, Energy - The International Journal, 25, 2000. pp.857-875.
P[RUU91a]: J. Ruusunen, H. Ehtamo and R.P. Hämäläinen: Dynamic cooperative electricity exchange in a power pool, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, July/August 1991, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp.758-766.
P[EHT89c]: H. Ehtamo, J. Ruusunen and R.P. Hämäläinen: A hierarchical approach to bargaining in power pool management, IEEE Transactions Automatic Control, Vol. 34, No.6, 1989, pp. 666-669.
P[EHT87]: H. Ehtamo, J. Ruusunen and R.P. Hämäläinen: On the computation of the Nash bargaining solution with an energy management example, Proc. 26th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, CA, 1987, pp. 263-266.