Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making

A Handbook of Research and Best Practice
Herausgegeben:Filar, Jerzy A.; Haurie, Alain

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• International Series in Operations Research & Management Science 138
• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11677154, 978-1-4419-1128-5
• 2010 edition
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 164mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9781441911285
• ISBN-10: 1441911286
• Artikelnr.: 26548568

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Uncertainty in integrated assessment models.- Parameter identification and calibration in complex earth system models.- Uncertainty and market based instruments for environmental management.- Viability theory vs robust control models.- Stochastic programming vs. stochastic control models.- Uncertainty, precautionary principle and equity.- Case studies.- Index.