Real-time and deliberative decision making: Based on papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Risk, Uncertainty and Decision Analysis for Environmental Security and Non-chemical Stressors, Estoril, Portugal, April 2007

Decision-making tools are needed to support environmental management in an increasingly global economy. Addressing threats and identifying actions to mitigate those threats necessitates an understanding of the basic risk assessment paradigm and the tools of risk analysis to assess, interpret, and communicate risks. It also requires modification of the risk paradigm itself to incorporatea complex array of quantitative and qualitative information that shapes the unique political and ecological challenges of different countries and regions around the world. This book builds a foundation to characterize and assess a broad range of human and ecological stressors, and risk management approaches toaddress those stressors, using chemical risk assessment methods and multi-criteria decision analysis tools. State-of-the-science approach to emerging threats Use of advanced quantitative tools to address policy problems Balanced international perspectives, including developing countries Risk assessment and decision analysis applications Case studies in the use of risk assessment and decision analysis INDICE: From the contents Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Part 1. Real-Time and Deliberative Decision Making: Needs and Applications.- Part 2. Risk Assessment for Emerging Stressors.- Part 3. Multicriteria Decision Analysis: Methodology and Tools.- Part 4. Applications of Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Environmental Stressors.- List of Participants.- Author Index.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9025-7
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 438
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés