| Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making: A Handbook of Research and Best Practice 2010 Edition Contributor(s): Filar, Jerzy A. (Editor), Haurie, Alain (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1461425255 ISBN-13: 9781461425250 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Environmental - General - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Business & Economics | Operations Research |
| Dewey: 333.7 |
| Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.11 lbs) 338 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |