Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making: A Handbook of Research and Best Practice - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1461425255 ISBN 13 : 9781461425250

Editeur : Springer, 2012

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1461425255
• ISBN 13: 9781461425250
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Éditeur: Filar Jerzy A., Haurie Alain
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