Aerthydral Collective

Aerthydral Collective is the not-for-profit organisation of the Alisios consortium, dedicated to socio-economic and environmental intelligence in the public interest. It works only with public and multilateral counterparties.

The name. Aerthydral is pronounced simply “Earth”. It joins air (aer), earth and water (hydro), the parts of the Earth system we work on, with Collective, for the human society whose decisions depend on them.

Decision assets are critical infrastructure. The data, models, indices, licences, platforms and expertise a state’s decisions rest on should be inventoried, governed, and protected the way bridges and grids are.

Decision Anatomy: what happened in a decision chain when a shock hit, and why. Its instrument, the Decision Trace, is free, standardised and no-fault, modelled on aviation accident investigation.

Trigger: whether the thresholds that start action are set where the evidence says they should be. Instrument: the Trigger Review.

Critical Decision Assets: the data, models, indices and expertise a state’s decisions depend on, and how they are governed. Instrument: the Decision Asset Audit.

Diagnose, never specify. Aerthydral inventories decision assets, diagnoses failures in decision chains and publishes its methods and findings openly. It does not draft terms of reference or technical specifications, sit on evaluation panels, advise on specific procurement procedures, or recommend or rank vendors.

Three questions about a decision

Each of our programmes asks one of them, at a different point of the same decision chain.

1

Underneath

What do decisions rest on?

Critical Decision Assets: the data, models, indices and expertise a state's decisions depend on, and how they are governed.

Instrument: Decision Asset Audit

2

Before

When should action start?

Trigger: whether the thresholds that start action are set where the evidence says they should be.

Instrument: Trigger Review

3

After the shock

What happened, and why?

Decision Anatomy: what happened in a decision chain when a shock hit, and why.

Instrument: Decision Trace — free, standardised, no-fault

Diagnose, never specify. We publish our methods and findings openly; we do not draft specifications, sit on evaluation panels or recommend vendors.

Aer · Earth · Hydro · Collective

The name, and the three signs in our logo

Aer — air

Aer

air

The atmosphere: weather and climate.

Earth — land

Earth

land

Land, soils, ecosystems and the economies built on them.

Hydro — water

Hydro

water

Rivers, reservoirs, rain and oceans.

Collective: the human society whose decisions depend on all three.

Aerthydral is pronounced simply “Earth”.