Energy Decisions and the Environment: A Guide to the Use of Multicriteria Methods (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780792378754)

Planning, operating, and policy making in the electric utility and natural gas sectors involves important trade-offs among economic, social, and environmental criteria. These trade-offs figure prominently in ongoing debates about how to meet growing energy demands and how to restructure the world's power industry. Energy Decisions and the Environment: A Guide to the Use of Multicriteria Methods reviews practical tools for multicriteria (also called multiobjective) decision analysis that can be used to quantify trade-offs and contribute to more consistent, informed, and transparent decision making. These methods are designed to generate and effectively communicate information about trade-offs; to help people form, articulate, and apply value judgments in decision making; and to promote effective negotiation among stakeholders with competing interests. Energy Decisions and the Environment: A Guide to the Use of Multicriteria Methods includes explanations of a wide range of methods, tutorial applications that readers can duplicate, a detailed review of energy-environment applications, and three in-depth case studies.

Author: Benjamin F. Hobbs,Peter Meier
ISBN-10: 079237875X
ISBN-13: 9780792378754
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2000
Pages: 257
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.47h x 6.45w x 0.86d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 03/01/2001 pg. 136