QnD Model
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Ecosystem Management
Varying environments provide a high species diversity in both plants and animals. Studies outlined an adaptive management framework that explores the consequences of management decisions by measuring the model outputs against critical thresholds. QnD is a tool to inform and educate interested parties of the ecosystem management issues. Playing the QnD software allows professionals to test various management responses within an operational framework to judge the success within ecosystem, financial and public values.
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QnD is also an adaptable risk assessment modeling system that provides tools to perform human and ecologically based risk/hazard assessments. A variety of risk assessments can be performed, allowing users to visualize an assessment from source though multiple environmental media (groundwater, surface water, air and land) to sensitive receptors of concern (e.g., human and ecological endpoints). QnD can also integrate field and laboratory data and facilitate the use of this data as a basis for screening-level predictions for other sites and scaling up for landscape-scale simulations.
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Changes in society, technology and infrastructure have contributed substantial net benefits to human welfare and economic development, but often with growing costs in the degradation of many ecosystems and their environmental services. QnD is a tool to explore these dynamics, a series of agent-based models considering several different levels of household and landscape complexity are developed with a multidisciplinary team of social scientists, ecologists and biological engineers providing useful insights into complex decision making and adaptive, spatial management.
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