ISBN:
9781781951385
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 249 p)
,
ill
Series Statement:
New horizons in environmental economics series
Series Statement:
Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
Parallel Title:
Available in another form
Parallel Title:
Elektronische Reproduktion von Young, Richard A. Uncertainty and the environment
Dissertation note:
Thesis (Ph.D.)
DDC:
333.7
Keywords:
Umweltpolitik
;
Theorie
;
Entscheidung unter Unsicherheit
;
Environmental policy Decision making
;
Environmental policy Economic aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Umweltpolitik
;
Entscheidung bei Unsicherheit
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-237) and index
DOI:
10.4337/9781781951385
URL:
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