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Barons, Martine J., Fonseca, Thaís C. O., Davis, Andy and Smith, Jim Q (2021) A decision support system for addressing food security in the United Kingdom. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) . doi:10.1111/rssa.12771 ISSN 0964-1998.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12771
Abstract
This paper presents an integrating decision support system (IDSS) for food security in the United Kingdom. In ever‐larger dynamic systems, such as the food system, it is increasingly difficult for decision makers (DMs) to effectively account for all the variables within the system that may influence the outcomes of interest under enactments of various candidate policies. Each of the influencing variables is likely, themselves, to be dynamic subsystems with expert domains supported by sophisticated probabilistic models. Recent increases in food poverty in the United Kingdom have raised the questions about the main drivers of food insecurity, how this may be changing over time and how evidence can be used in evaluating policy for decision support. In this context, an IDSS is proposed for household food security to allow DMs to compare several candidate policies which may affect the outcome of food insecurity at the household level.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Statistics | ||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Food security , Food security -- Mathematical models, Food supply, Food supply -- Statistical methods -- Great Britain, Decision support systems , Decision support systems -- Mathematical models | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) | ||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0964-1998 | ||||||
Official Date: | 15 November 2021 | ||||||
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DOI: | 10.1111/rssa.12771 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 November 2021 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 November 2021 | ||||||
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