The Management of Uncertainty: Approaches, Methods and Applications

For thirty years, the literature on decision-making and planning has been divided into two camps : work premised on rational models of choice and work designed to discredit such models. The sustained critic of fully rational decision-making theories has al­ ready a long history and a constant messag...

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Other Authors: Wilkin, Luc (Editor), Sutton, A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1986, 1986
Edition:1st ed. 1986
Series:NATO Science Series D:, Behavioural and Social Sciences
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introductory Essay
  • 2. The Strategic Choice Approach
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  • The Strategic Choice Approach to Managing Uncertainty
  • A Perspective on Robustness
  • Reflections on Uncertainty in Strategic Choice
  • 3. Multicriteria Decision Aids
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  • Multicriteria Decision Aid for the Management of Uncertainty
  • 4. Metagame and Hypergame
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  • Modelling Political Uncertainty Using the Improved Metagame Analysis Algorithm
  • Hypergame Theory and Methodology: The Current “State of the Art”
  • 5. Related Topics
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  • Uncertainty in the Negotiation and Mediation of Environmental Disputes
  • Risk and Uncertainty in Public and Occupational Health
  • Probability and Uncertainty
  • 6. Interrelationships
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  • A Perceptual-Behavioral Perspective of Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
  • Uncertainty, Complexity and Decision-Making Processes
  • Conflict Analysis Techniques in Strategic Choice
  • Conflict and Strategic Choice