In our new joint research project with The Faculty of Business Administration and Economics of Bielefeld University both parties combine their expertises to explore the possible value of (additional) information and its consequences for optimal decision making in the context of ecological-economic problems.
While the primary aim of ecologists is to understand the interactions among organisms and their environment, we also have to be concerned about practical applications in the conservation of ecosystems, the protection of biodiversity, the regulation of composition of the biomass, the management of natural renewable resources – both in space and in time.
Over the past months life has been severely impacted by Covid. The pandemic has wiped the previous problems, the Australian wildfires and the rise of disinformation, off the news and off people’s minds. However, to the network scientist an important parallel exists: All of these phenomena can be understood as spreading processes on networks.
