Uncertainty and the environment implications for decision making and environmental policy
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 applicatio...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham
Edward Elgar Pub
2001
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| Series: | New horizons in environmental economics series
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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 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 |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 249 p ill |
| ISBN: | 1840646268 9781781951385 9781840646269 |