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Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty and the Great Acceleration: The Role of Experts and Policy Analysis in a World in Transition
Apr 24, 2025
Robust Decision Making
Robust Decision Making
Robust decision making (RDM) is an analytic framework that helps identify potential robust strategies, characterize the vulnerabilities of such strategies, and evaluate trade-offs among them. RDM is being used at RAND to help decisionmakers in areas such as water resources planning, energy, and coastal resilience—areas often plagued with “deep uncertainty,” in which stakeholders do not know or agree on the relationships among actions, consequences, and probabilities.
