Case Study: Wildfowling

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Case Study Wildfowling

• Proposals exist to expand the area where passage
  and wintering birds can be shot
• Becomes complicated - not because of number of
  birds killed but disturbance caused

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The team theyre good but ...
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Current sources of information

• Google searches
• National specialists inside and outside the
  organisation (opinion and judgement)
• Conversations with colleagues
• Library searches
• Myself (empirical)!
• From the decision-making process

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Issues

• Limited time to search, absorb and analyse data
  and information
• Precautionary approach v risk-taking
• Often confrontational debate
• Exacerbated by reliance on conflicting data
• From apparently different sources of data not
  available to both parties

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Worked Examples

• Lots of information we assume
• Tend to utilise a set of favoured references
• Clearly not comprehensive opposition has
  more/ other references
• Lets have a look.......

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Summary

• Requirements of state institutions to provide
  justified and accurate opinion/ advice
• Real pressures of time and resources
• Good job done but could be better?
• Each question/ issue is different and unique
• Huge amounts of data and information available
  but where is it?
• How do we find it better?

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• Thank you!