Multiobjective Decision Support for Environmental Management

✍ Scribed by Ron Janssen (auth.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Leaves: 239
Series: Environment & Management 2
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Multiple criteria decision making is a major and rapidly growing field of research. Methods resulting from this field of research are used in this book to develop a Multiobjective Decision Support Systems (MODSS) for environmental management. The primary focus of the book is therefore on the issues and practicalities that arise when these methods are applied to support decisions on environmental problems. Most methods included in this book are derived from the literature on multicriteria decision making, decision anlysis and operations research. Concepts developed in management science are used to describe environmental decision processes and to define the functions of decision support.
The author's work on MODSS has resulted in the development of a decision support package, called DEFINITE (DEcisions on a FINITE set of alternatives). A demonstration version of this programme is included with the book.
This Demo Disk can be run on a MS-DOS compatible personal computer (version 2.0 or higher) having a 3,5 inch, 720 Kb disk drive and 640 Kb available RAM.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction to Decision Support....Pages 1-15
Environmental Decision Making....Pages 17-50
Methods for Multiobjective Decision Support....Pages 51-90
Sensitivity Analysis for Multiobjective Decision Support....Pages 91-106
A Multiobjective Decision Support System for Environmental Problems....Pages 107-125
Valuation and Uncertainty in Multiobjective Decision Support....Pages 127-151
Space in Multiobjective Decision Support....Pages 153-178
Time and Space in Multiobjective Decision Support....Pages 179-201
Conclusions....Pages 203-214
Back Matter....Pages 215-233

✦ Subjects

Environmental Management; Environmental Economics; Operation Research/Decision Theory

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