The project aims to identify optimal policies to protect ecological systems that provide ecological services to nature and humanity when these systems are potentially vulnerable to abrupt and significant changes. The project also aims to integrate the concept of Value of Information (Vol) in this framework of dynamic decision making. Hence this research project helps to solve inter-temporal ecological and environmental problems in the presence of abrupt shifts within a framework of uncertainty and will, in this way, contribute to ensuring a better and more sustainable use of the most valuable natural resources.

Drugs that specifically target pathogens have been one of the major medical breakthroughs of the last century, but their success is continually under threat due to the evolution of drug resistant strains. In Kosakowski et al., 2018, we studied the competition between antibiotic producing bacteria, non-producers (or cheaters), and sensitive cells in a 2D lattice. We examine the conditions under which multiple bacterial strains can coexist and how those conditions are affected by the evolution of antibiotic production and underlying interaction structure of the population.