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.
| ISBN: | 9781441911285 |
| Publication date: | 14th December 2009 |
| Author: | Jerzy A Filar, Alain B Haurie |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer US |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 338 pages |
| Series: | International Series in Operations Research & Management Science |
| Genres: |
Environmental monitoring Environmental economics Management decision making Operational research Applied mathematics Environmental management Regional / International studies Political economy The environment |