Risks and Decisions for Conservation and Environmental Management - Couverture souple

Burgman, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521543010 ISBN 13 : 9780521543019

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book outlines how to conduct a complete environmental risk assessment. The first part documents the psychology and philosophy of risk perception and assessment, introducing a taxonomy of uncertainty and the importance of context. It provides a critical examination of the use and abuse of expert judgement and goes on to outline approaches to hazard identification and subjective ranking that account for uncertainty and context. The second part of the book describes technical tools that can assist risk assessments to be transparent and internally consistent. These include interval arithmetic, ecotoxicological methods, logic trees and Monte Carlo simulation. These methods have an established place in risk assessments in many disciplines and their strengths and weaknesses are explored. The last part of the book outlines some new approaches, including p-bounds and information-gap theory, and describes how quantitative and subjective assessments can be used to make transparent decisions.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mark Burgman is Professor of Environmental Science in the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521543010
• ISBN 13: 9780521543019
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 504
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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