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

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461425255
• ISBN13: 9781461425250
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"