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Five key principles of designing effective decision-support tools

By Water Resources Mission Area
Five principles of successful decision-support tool design and development
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Decision-support tools can be useful to natural resource managers, policy makers and other stakeholders that use USGS data. USGS scientists analyzed how scientists and technology professionals describe their experiences developing decision-support tools. In a new USGS report, they present five principles of successful decision-support tool design and development.

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