Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making A Handbook of Rese
Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making: A Handbook of Research and Best Practice presents the state of the art in applying operations research and management science (OR/MS) techniques to a broad range of environmental decision making (EDM) challen
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Jerzy A. Filar • Alain Haurie Editors
Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making A Handbook of Research and Best Practice
Editors Jerzy A. Filar University of South Australia ISST Mawson Lakes SA 5095 Australia [email protected]
Alain Haurie ORDECSYS/C-ORDEE Place de L’Etrier 4 1224 Chene-Bougeries Switzerland
ISBN 978-1-4419-1128-5 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1129-2 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1129-2 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009940575 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights.
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Preface
The 21st century promises to be an era dominated by international response to certain 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 field of development for Operations Research and Management Science (OR/MS). Uncertainty 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 briefly introduce, peer reviewed, chapters of this handbook and the topics that are treated by the invited authors. The first 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. Chapter 1. Filar and Haurie present a broad overview of Operations Research and Management Science methods and models used to support Environmental Decision Making under uncertainty. They first outline challenges and pitfalls of OR/MS applications to EDM. Subsequently, they classify different sources of uncertainty and show how stochastic reasoning pervades some fundamental issues raised in EDM and environmental economics. In particular, they discuss issues related t
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