Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making: A Handbook of Research and Best Practice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781441911285)

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.

Author: Jerzy A. Filar
ISBN-10: 1441911286
ISBN-13: 9781441911285
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2009
Pages: 338
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d