Environmental Security in Harbors and Coastal Areas : Management Using Comparative Risk Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Igor Linkov

ISBN 10: 1402058004 / ISBN 13: 9781402058004

Edité par Springer, 2007

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Human experience has shown how great cities, nations, and empires have either collapsed or retired from their predominant stature when natural resources are depleted to an extent that exceeds the ability of the environment to restore or replenish their supply. This book explores the challenges facing coastal areas during the next few decades and the difficult decisions needed to prevent a repeat of the past. Establishing, maintaining or enhancing a sense of environmental security in different coastal regions and improving the management of critical infrastructure will require (i) matching human demands with available environmental resources; (ii) recognition of environmental security threats and infrastructure vulnerabilities; and, (iii) identification of the range of available options for preventing and/or minimizing natural disasters, technological failures, and/or terror actions. This book emphasizes beliefs that the convergence of seemingly disparate viewpoints and often uncertain and limited information is possible only by using one or more available risk assessment methodologies and decision-making tools such as multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA).

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Environmental Security in Harbors and Coastal Areas : Management Using Comparative Risk Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
• Éditeur: Springer
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1402058004
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781402058004
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 241 L x 164 H x 42 P (en millimètres) 241 millimètres de largeur par 164 millimètres de hauteur par 42 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 856 grammes

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Synopsis

Human experience has shown how great cities, nations, and empires have either collapsed or retired from their predominant stature when natural resources are depleted to an extent that exceeds the ability of the environment to restore or replenish their supply. This book explores the challenges facing coastal areas during the next few decades and the difficult decisions needed to prevent a repeat of the past. Establishing, maintaining or enhancing a sense of environmental security in different coastal regions and improving the management of critical infrastructure will require (i) matching human demands with available environmental resources; (ii) recognition of environmental security threats and infrastructure vulnerabilities; and, (iii) identification of the range of available options for preventing and/or minimizing natural disasters, technological failures, and/or terror actions. This book emphasizes beliefs that the convergence of seemingly disparate viewpoints and often uncertain and limited information is possible only by using one or more available risk assessment methodologies and decision-making tools such as multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA).

Présentation de l'éditeur

Based on papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Management Tools for Port Security, Critical Infrastructure, and Sustainability, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, March 2005