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Author : Gunter Schramm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Value of Time in Environmental Decision Processes written by Gunter Schramm and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gunter Schramm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (377 download)
Download or read book The Value of Time in Environmental Decision Processes written by Gunter Schramm and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gunter Schramm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Value of Time in Environmental Decision Processes: Main report written by Gunter Schramm and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309095409
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Decision Making for the Environment written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growing number, complexity, and importance of environmental problems come demands to include a full range of intellectual disciplines and scholarly traditions to help define and eventually manage such problems more effectively. Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities is the result of a 2-year effort by 12 social and behavioral scientists, scholars, and practitioners. The report sets research priorities for the social and behavioral sciences as they relate to several different kinds of environmental problems.
Author : John O'Neill
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conceptions of Value in Environmental Decision-making written by John O'Neill and published by Pelican Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This policy briefing series communicates the findings from nine workshops and three plenary meetings under the EVE programme. These showed the diversity of research currently being undertaken in the area of environmental values and their policy expression. The type of information relevant to the decision process extends from ecological functioning to moral values.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309134412
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal agencies have taken steps to include the public in a wide range of environmental decisions. Although some form of public participation is often required by law, agencies usually have broad discretion about the extent of that involvement. Approaches vary widely, from holding public information-gathering meetings to forming advisory groups to actively including citizens in making and implementing decisions. Proponents of public participation argue that those who must live with the outcome of an environmental decision should have some influence on it. Critics maintain that public participation slows decision making and can lower its quality by including people unfamiliar with the science involved. This book concludes that, when done correctly, public participation improves the quality of federal agencies' decisions about the environment. Well-managed public involvement also increases the legitimacy of decisions in the eyes of those affected by them, which makes it more likely that the decisions will be implemented effectively. This book recommends that agencies recognize public participation as valuable to their objectives, not just as a formality required by the law. It details principles and approaches agencies can use to successfully involve the public.
Author : Daniel A. Farber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226238074
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Eco-pragmatism written by Daniel A. Farber and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eco-pragmatism takes on the most critical controversies in environmental law today: how to weigh economic costs against environmental quality and human life, how to assess the long time horizons of environmental problems, and how to make appropriate decisions in the face of scientific uncertainty about the scope (or even the existence) of environmental problems. Farber discusses whether (and how) we should "discount" the values of future environmental benefits, how we should use economic measurements of environmental values, and how we can streamline the regulatory process to respond to rapidly changing scientific knowledge. The result is a pragmatic decision-making framework that is flexible enough to accommodate the unique challenges each case presents.
Author : Knut Lehre Seip
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402040733
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A Primer on Environmental Decision-Making written by Knut Lehre Seip and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates decision-making and environmental science. For ecologists it will bridge the gap to economics. For practitioners in environmental economics and management it will be a major reference book. It probably contains the largest collection available of expressions and basic equations that are used in environmental sciences. The book is organized in disciplines, but it also includes 13 applications that draw on all subjects in the book, and where cross-references are extensively used. The applications show how a range of topics in economics, social sciences and ecology are interrelated when decisions have to be made.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030909318X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Valuing Ecosystem Services written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-05-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nutrient recycling, habitat for plants and animals, flood control, and water supply are among the many beneficial services provided by aquatic ecosystems. In making decisions about human activities, such as draining a wetland for a housing development, it is essential to consider both the value of the development and the value of the ecosystem services that could be lost. Despite a growing recognition of the importance of ecosystem services, their value is often overlooked in environmental decision-making. This report identifies methods for assigning economic value to ecosystem servicesâ€"even intangible onesâ€"and calls for greater collaboration between ecologists and economists in such efforts.
Author : Jerzy A. Filar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441911308
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making written by Jerzy A. Filar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Author : Robin Gregory
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444333410
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Structured Decision Making written by Robin Gregory and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines the creative process of making environmental management decisions using the approach called Structured Decision Making. It is a short introductory guide to this popular form of decision making and is aimed at environmental managers and scientists. This is a distinctly pragmatic label given to ways for helping individuals and groups think through tough multidimensional choices characterized by uncertain science, diverse stakeholders, and difficult tradeoffs. This is the everyday reality of environmental management, yet many important decisions currently are made on an ad hoc basis that lacks a solid value-based foundation, ignores key information, and results in selection of an inferior alternative. Making progress – in a way that is rigorous, inclusive, defensible and transparent – requires combining analytical methods drawn from the decision sciences and applied ecology with deliberative insights from cognitive psychology, facilitation and negotiation. The authors review key methods and discuss case-study examples based in their experiences in communities, boardrooms, and stakeholder meetings. The goal of this book is to lay out a compelling guide that will change how you think about making environmental decisions. Visit www.wiley.com/go/gregory/ to access the figures and tables from the book.
Author : Ron Janssen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Multiobjective Decision Support for Environmental Management written by Ron Janssen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1992 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface. 1. Introduction to Decision Support. 2. Environmental Decision Making. 3. Methods for Multiobjective Decision Support. 4. Sensitivity Analysis for Multiobjective Decision Support. 5. A Multiobjective Decision Support System for Environmental Problems. 6. Valuation and Uncertainty in Multiobjective Decision Support. 7. Space in Multiobjective Decision Support. 8. Time and Space in Multiobjective Decision Support. Conclusions. References. Index.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309290236
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Environmental Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is one of several federal agencies responsible for protecting Americans against significant risks to human health and the environment. As part of that mission, EPA estimates the nature, magnitude, and likelihood of risks to human health and the environment; identifies the potential regulatory actions that will mitigate those risks and protect public health1 and the environment; and uses that information to decide on appropriate regulatory action. Uncertainties, both qualitative and quantitative, in the data and analyses on which these decisions are based enter into the process at each step. As a result, the informed identification and use of the uncertainties inherent in the process is an essential feature of environmental decision making. EPA requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convene a committee to provide guidance to its decision makers and their partners in states and localities on approaches to managing risk in different contexts when uncertainty is present. It also sought guidance on how information on uncertainty should be presented to help risk managers make sound decisions and to increase transparency in its communications with the public about those decisions. Given that its charge is not limited to human health risk assessment and includes broad questions about managing risks and decision making, in this report the committee examines the analysis of uncertainty in those other areas in addition to human health risks. Environmental Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty explains the statement of task and summarizes the findings of the committee.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309165393
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Decision Making for the Environment written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growing number, complexity, and importance of environmental problems come demands to include a full range of intellectual disciplines and scholarly traditions to help define and eventually manage such problems more effectively. Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities is the result of a 2-year effort by 12 social and behavioral scientists, scholars, and practitioners. The report sets research priorities for the social and behavioral sciences as they relate to several different kinds of environmental problems.
Author : Lucas Bretschger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402062931
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics written by Lucas Bretschger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in the book cover a broad range of aspects regarding the relationship between natural resource use and long-term economic development. The book surveys existing literature as well as adds to frontier research. In particular, the following topics are studied: incentives for adoption and diffusion of clean technology, resource scarcity and limits to growth, international convergence of energy intensity, and the social norms shaping resource depletion.
Author : Mary O'Brien
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262650533
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Making Better Environmental Decisions written by Mary O'Brien and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work recommends a simple yet profound shift to another decision-making technique: alternatives assessment. Instead of asking how much of a hazardous activity is safe, alternatives assessment asks how we can avoid or minimize damage.
Author : E. Beinat
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789401588867
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Value Functions for Environmental Management written by E. Beinat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental decisions must satisfy a multitude of objectives and the matching of a plan, policy or project to such objectives is a matter of both facts and value judgements. Value Functions for Environmental Management provides a systematic approach to the structuring and measurement of value judgements, showing how they drive the decision process and how to make them transparent and effective in support of complex decisions. The value functions that the book describes provide a scheme for the exploration of human values and a tool for transforming them into an analytical model. A clear statement can then be made of the degree to which a decision has achieved its objectives, and how conflicting objectives may be addressed. This does not mean that there is no role for human judgement in the process. Complexity, often coupled with large information gaps, necessitates expert judgement, but the values adopted by the experts are themselves capable of being structured and measured according to the value function methodology presented here, even if the judgements themselves are qualitative and tentative. Value models for expert panels are also presented. The use of the methodology in practice is illustrated by examples. The book contains an extensive subject index.
