Environmental Modelling: An Uncertain Future?: An Introduction to Techniques for Uncertainty Estimation in Environmental Prediction - Couverture souple

Beven, Keith

 
9780415457590: Environmental Modelling: An Uncertain Future?: An Introduction to Techniques for Uncertainty Estimation in Environmental Prediction
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ISBN 10 : 0415457599 ISBN 13 : 9780415457590
Editeur : CRC Press, 2008

Synopsis

Uncertainty in the predictions of science when applied to the environment is an issue of great current relevance in relation to the impacts of climate change, protecting against natural and man-made disasters, pollutant transport and sustainable resource management. However, it is often ignored both by scientists and decision makers, or interpreted as a conflict or disagreement between scientists. This is not necessarily the case, the scientists might well agree, but their predictions would still be uncertain and knowledge of that uncertainty might be important in decision making.

Environmental Modelling: An Uncertain Future? introduces students, scientists and decision makers to:

  • the different concepts and techniques of uncertainty estimation in environmental prediction

  • the philosophical background to different concepts of uncertainty

  • the constraint of uncertainties by the collection of observations and data assimilation in real-time forecasting

  • techniques for decision making under uncertainty.

This book will be relevant to environmental modellers, practitioners and decision makers in hydrology, hydraulics, ecology, meteorology and oceanography, geomorphology, geochemistry, soil science, pollutant transport and climate change.

A companion website for the book can be found at www.uncertain-future.org.uk

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À propos de l?auteur

Keith Beven is Professor of Hydrology and Fluid Dynamics at Lancaster University. While finishing this book he was at Uppsala University in Sweden as Konung Carl XVI Gustafs Gästprofessor i Miljövetenskap 2006/07.

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Éditeur
CRC Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415457599
ISBN 13 
9780415457590
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
328
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Personne responsable
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