Uncertainty and the environment implications for decision making and environmental policy

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 applicatio...

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Main Author: Young, Richard A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham Edward Elgar Pub 2001
Series:New horizons in environmental economics series
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520 |a 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