Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) is struggling with a lack of science-management integration. Many computer systems, usually known as "decision support systems", have been developed with the intention to make scientific knowledge about complex systems more accessible for coastal...

Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) is struggling with a lack of science-management integration. Many computer systems, usually known as “decision support systems”, have been developed with the intention to make scientific knowledge about complex systems more accessible for coastal...

Many policy problems in the field of urban planning and traffic management are to be characterized as ?ill structured problems?, i.e. there is little consensus about ?goals and facts?. The policy making process for such problems is a learning process, a continuous search for acceptable goals and...