Uncertainty and environmental decision making / Jerzey A. Filar, Alain Haurie, editors.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed. 2010.
Published/​Created
New York : Springer, x2010.
Description
1 online resource (346 pages)

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Series
  • International series in operations research & management science. [More in this series]
  • International series in operations research and management science
Subseries of
International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
Summary note
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) challenges. Drawing on leading researchers in the field, it provides a guided tour of selected methods and tools to help deal with issues as climate change, depleting biodiversity and biocapacity, and more general atmospheric, water and soil pollution problems. Individual peer-reviewed chapters look at applying stochastic reasoning on difficult issues arising in EDM under uncertainty; applying stochastic or robust programming methods to techno-economic modeling of energy/environment interactions; important consequences of uncertainty inherent in weather patterns, the El Nino phenomenon and anticipated climate change; exploiting tools of decision analysis, utility theory and optimal control theory to account for differences in time scales between human development processes and the natural processes of the biosphere; and methods that combine statistical and decision analyses that can support a variety of environmental management problems. This important new work will be of special interest to a wide range of researchers, students, and practitioners in environmental economics, OR/MS, environmental and earth sciences, climatologists, and risk assessment.
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • OR/MS and Environmental Decision Making under Uncertainty
  • Modeling Uncertainty in a Large scale integrated Energy-Climate Model
  • Robust Optimization for Environmental and Energy Planning
  • Coping with Climate Risks in Indonesian Rice Agriculture: A Policy Perspective
  • A Primer on Weather Derivatives
  • Optimal Control Models and Elicitation of Attitudes towards Climate Damages
  • A Stochastic Control/Game Approach to the Optimal Timing of Climate Policies
  • Precautionary Effect and Variations of the Value of Information
  • Comparative Forecasting and a Test for Persistence in the El Ni#x00F1;o Southern Oscillation
  • Generation of Synthetic Sequences of Electricity Demand with Applications
  • Models for Improving Management of Biosolids Odors.
ISBN
  • 1-4614-2525-5
  • 1-282-83271-9
  • 9786612832710
  • 1-4419-1128-6
OCLC
608780725
Doi
  • 10.1007/978-1-4419-1129-2
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