Opinions

Within the project SPARKLE MARS FS has been used as a decision support tool in a series of workshops in Thailand and Vietnam. Here is a summary of the conclusions and comments of the workshop paricipants:

• MARS FS was found easy to navigate
• The causes-tree tool was found extremly useful to understand the behaviour of the model
• Possibility to work interactively with the model and test each policy instrument individually
• Explore synergetic effects of policy combinations
• Outputs as graphs or tables, and exporting function
• Minor criticism was the list of pre-prepared indicators

Introduction

• Why another model?
• Decision making process
• MARS Structure
• MARS - MARS FS - Decision Making Tool
• Opinions and outlook