Overview
- State-of-the-science approach to current environmental issues
- Balanced international perspectives, including developing countries
- Use of advanced quantitative tools to address policy problems
- Risk assessment and decision analysis applications
- Case studies in the use of risk assessment and MCDA
Part of the book series: Nato Security through Science Series C: (NASTC)
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Table of contents (34 papers)
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Front Matter
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Environmental Security: Regulatory Needs and Tools
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Coastal Areas: Challenges and Solutions
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Applications of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
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About this book
Human experience has shown how great cities, nations, and empires have either collapsed or retired from their predominant stature when natural resources are depleted to an extent that exceeds the ability of the environment to restore or replenish their supply. This book explores the challenges facing coastal areas during the next few decades and the difficult decisions needed to prevent a repeat of the past. Establishing, maintaining or enhancing a sense of environmental security in different coastal regions and improving the management of critical infrastructure will require (i) matching human demands with available environmental resources; (ii) recognition of environmental security threats and infrastructure vulnerabilities; and, (iii) identification of the range of available options for preventing and/or minimizing natural disasters, technological failures, and/or terror actions. This book emphasizes beliefs that the convergence of seemingly disparate viewpoints and often uncertain and limited information is possible only by using one or more available risk assessment methodologies and decision-making tools such as multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA).
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Security in Harbors and Coastal Areas
Book Subtitle: Management Using Comparative Risk Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
Editors: Igor Linkov, Gregory A. Kiker, Richard J. Wenning
Series Title: Nato Security through Science Series C:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5802-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5800-4Published: 31 March 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5801-1Published: 27 March 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5802-8Published: 24 May 2007
Series ISSN: 1871-4668
Series E-ISSN: 1871-4692
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 492
Topics: Environmental Management, Oceanography, Coastal Sciences, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Environmental Economics, Math. Appl. in Environmental Science