International Operations Research & Management Science Uncertainty And Environmental Decision Making A Handbook Of Resea

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. Brand: Springer Us Size: []

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...show more