Uncertainty and the environment: implications for decision making and environmental policy

This thought provoking book is concerned with the need to deal adequately with uncertainty in environmental decision making. The author advances a critique of the use of traditional models and then develops an alternative model of decision making under uncertainty, based on the work of George Shackl...

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1. Verfasser: Young, Richard A. 1973- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass Edward Elgar Pub 2001
Schriftenreihe:New horizons in environmental economics series
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Zusammenfassung:This thought provoking book is concerned with the need to deal adequately with uncertainty in environmental decision making. The author advances a critique of the use of traditional models and then develops an alternative model of decision making under uncertainty, based on the work of George Shackle
1. Introduction : dealing with uncertainty in environmental decision making -- 2. The decision making context -- 3. Environmental uncertainty -- 4. Uncertainty and decision making -- 5. The Shackle model -- 6. Case study : the Belize Southern Highway -- 7. Methodology -- 8. Results of the application of the Shackle model -- 9. Discussion : a framework for the evaluation of hard uncertainty in environmental decision making -- 10. Conclusions
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-237) and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 249 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781781951385