Bruce G. Marcot

The Science and Management of Uncertainty (eBook, ePUB)

Dealing with Doubt in Natural Resource Management

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a rigorous scientific framework for dealing with uncertainty in real-world situations, and provides a comprehensive study of concepts, measurements, and applications of uncertainty in ecological modeling and natural resource management.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000244571
• Artikelnr.: 59969294

Autorenporträt

Bruce G. Marcot is a Research Wildlife Biologist with the U.S. Forest Service. He received his Ph.D. from Oregon State University in 1984. His expertise is in ecology and conservation of rare and at-risk species, probabilistic modeling, and application of risk analysis and decision science in conservation. His many international studies include impacts of climate change on wildlife biota, movement dynamics of organisms, and causal modeling of environmental stressors.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. What is Uncertainty? Measuring Uncertainty. Modeling Uncertainty.
Communicating Uncertainty. Capturing Expert Judgment. Decision-making Under
Uncertainty. Fallacies of Logic and Inference. Case Topics. Summary and
Conclusions. References. Index.