{"product_id":"uncertainty-and-environmental-decision-making-jerzy-a-filar-9781441911285","title":"Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making: A Handbook of Research and Best Practice","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jerzy A. Filar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1441911286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781441911285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d","brand":"Jerzy A. Filar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424374276351,"sku":"9781441911285","price":169.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_05b6493d-3c28-46d1-963a-f5fd1532bdff.jpg?v=1761529839","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/uncertainty-and-environmental-decision-making-jerzy-a-filar-9781441911285","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}