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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jerzy A. Filar , Alain HauriePublisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Edition: 2010 ed. Volume: 138 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.551kg ISBN: 9781461425250ISBN 10: 1461425255 Pages: 338 Publication Date: 03 May 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |