Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making

A Handbook of Research and Best Practice

338 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The 21st century promises to be an era dominated by international response to c- tain global environmental challenges such as climate change, depleting biodiversity and biocapacity as well as general atmospheric, water and soil pollution problems. Consequently, Environmental decision making (EDM) is a socially important ?eld of development for Operations Research and Management Science (OR/MS). - certainty is an important feature of these decision problems and it intervenes at very different time and space scales. The Handbook on “Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making” provides a guided tour of selected methods and tools that OR/MS offer to deal with these issues. Below, we brie?y introduce, peer reviewed, chapters of this handbook and the topics that are treated by the invited authors. The ?rst chapter is a general introduction to the challenges of environmental decision making, the use of OR/MS techniques and a range of tools that are used to deal with uncertainty in this domain.

• Reihe: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
• Themen: Technologie, Ingenieurswissenschaft, Landwirtschaft, Industrieprozesse Umweltwissenschaften, Umwelttechnik Umweltüberwachung (Umwelt-Monitoring)
• ISBN: 9781441911285
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.12.2009
• Größe: 23.5 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: Springer US
• Herausgegeben von: Jerzy A. Filar, Alain Haurie