Real-Time and Deliberative Decision Making: Application to Emerging Stressors

By: Ferguson, Elizabeth

Book Overview

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Part 1. Real-Time and Deliberative Decision Making: Needs and Applications.- Cognitive Aspects of Business Innovation; Scientific Process and Military Experience; I. Linkov et al.- A Synopsis of Immediate and Deliberate Environmental Assessments; S.M. Cormier.- Federal Decision Making for Homeland Security: Mapping the Normative/Descriptive Divide; L. Valverde, Jr., S. Farrow.- Group Information-Seeking Behavior in Emergency Response: An Investigation of Expert/Novice Differences; Q. Gu, D. Mendon?a.- The Use of War Game Simulations for Business Strategies; B. Sheppard, D. Slavin.- An Integrated Approach for Flood Risk Management; J. Ganoulis.- Rationale and Development of a Scale to Communicate Environmental and other Community Risks; M.M. Plum.- Part 2. Risk Assessment for Emerging Stressors.- Estimation of Effect Thresholds for the Development of Water Quality Criteria; S. Cormier et al.- Comprehensive Risk Assessment: Applying the Cultural Property Risk Analysis Model to the Canadian Museum of Nature; R. Waller.- DPSIR and Risk Assessment of Dumped Chemical Warfare Agents in the Baltic Sea; H. Sanderson et al.- Social and Ecological Challenges within the Realm of Environmental Security; L. Kapustka et al.- Adaptive Management and the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan; D. Guinto, R. Reed.- Part 3. Multicriteria Decision Analysis: Methodology and Tools.- Uncertainty Modeling with Imprecise Statistical Reasoning and the Precautionary Principle in Decision Making; I. Kozine.- SMAA-III: A Simulation-Based Approach for Sensitivity Analysis of ELECTRE III; T. Tervonen et al.- Attracting Additional Information for Enhancing the Uncertainty Model: Towards Improved Risk Assessments; V. Krymsky.- Modeling Stakeholder Preferences with Probabilistic Inversion: Application to Prioritizing Marine Ecoystem Vulnerabilities; R. Neslo et al.- Operations Research and Decision Analysis: Software Tools and Applications; D. Strimling.-Multicriteria Decision Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment: Applications under High Uncertainty; K. Rogers et al.- Decision Evaluation for Complex Environmental Risk Networked Systems (DECERNS): Cost/Benefit Module and Application to Wildlife Reserve Management; A. Grebenkov et al.- Sustainable Management of Water Resources and Minimization of Environmental Risks: A Multi-Portfolio Optimization Model; E. Levner et al.- Avoiding MCDA Evaluation Pitfalls; J. Barzilai.- Part 4. Applications of Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Environmental Stressors.- Approaches Used for Remedy Selection at Contaminated Sediment Sites: Analysis of Two Case Studies; V.S. Magar et al.- Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Choosing the Remediation Method for a Landfill Based on Mixed Ordinal and Cardinal Information; R. Lahdelma, P. Salminen.- Ordinal Measurements with Interval Constraints in the EIA Process for Siting a Waste Storage Area; R. Lahdelma, P. Salminen.- Balancing Socioeconomic and Environmental Risks and Benefits under Multiple Stressor Conditions: A Case Study of the Powder River Basin in Wyoming; S. Shalhevet.- Risk Assessment of Radionuclide Contamination in Potable Water; A.A. Bayramov, S.M. Bayramova.- Assessment of Groundwater Contamination Risk from Nonchemical Stressors in Wastewater; N. Haruvy, S. Shalhevet.- Wastewater Reuse: Risk Assessment, Decision Making, and Environmental Security: A Technical Report; M.K. Zaidi.- List of Participants.- Author Index.-

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402090250
• ISBN13: 9781402090257
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"