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Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making

A Handbook of Research and Best Practice

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Editors:
  1. Jerzy A. Filar

    1. ISST, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia

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  2. Alain Haurie

    1. ORDECSYS / C-ORDEE, Chene-Bougeries, Switzerland

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  • Presents the state of the art in a critically important area – Environmental Decision Making
  • Gathers the work of leading researchers in applying OR/MS techniques to EDM
  • Filar and Haurie are leaders in the field; Filar is Editor-in-Chief of Springer journal Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 138)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. OR/MS and Environmental Decision Making under Uncertainty

    • Jerzy A. Filar, Alain B. Haurie
    Pages 1-49

  3. Modeling Uncertainty in a Large scale integrated Energy-Climate Model

    • Maryse Labriet, Richard Loulou, Amit Kanudia
    Pages 51-77

  4. Robust Optimization for Environmental and Energy Planning

    • F. Babonneau, J.-P. Vial, R. Apparigliato
    Pages 79-126

  5. Coping with Climate Risks in Indonesian Rice Agriculture: A Policy Perspective

    • Rosamond L. Naylor, Michael D. Mastrandrea
    Pages 127-153

  6. A Primer on Weather Derivatives

    • Pauline Barrieu, Olivier Scaillet
    Pages 155-175

  7. Optimal Control Models and Elicitation of Attitudes towards Climate Damages

    • Philippe Ambrosi, Jean-Charles Hourcade, Stéphane Hallegatte, Franck Lecocq, Patrice Dumas, Minh Ha Duong
    Pages 177-209

  8. A Stochastic Control/Game Approach to the Optimal Timing of Climate Policies

    • O. Bahn, A. Haurie, R. Malhamé
    Pages 211-237

  9. Precautionary Effect and Variations of the Value of Information

    • M. De Lara, L. Gilotte
    Pages 239-253

  10. Comparative Forecasting and a Test for Persistence in the El Niño Southern Oscillation

    • Belinda A. Chiera, Jerzy A. Filar, Daniel S. Zachary, Adrian H. Gordon
    Pages 255-273

  11. Generation of Synthetic Sequences of Electricity Demand with Applications

    • J. W. Boland
    Pages 275-314

  12. Models for Improving Management of Biosolids Odors

    • Steven A. Gabriel, Sirapong Vilalai, Prawat Sahakij, Mark Ramirez, Chris Peot
    Pages 315-334

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 335-338
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The 21st century promises to be an era dominated by international response to c- tain global environmental challenges such as climate change, depleting biodiversity and biocapacity as well as general atmospheric, water and soil pollution problems. Consequently, Environmental decision making (EDM) is a socially important ?eld of development for Operations Research and Management Science (OR/MS). - certainty is an important feature of these decision problems and it intervenes at very different time and space scales. The Handbook on “Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making” provides a guided tour of selected methods and tools that OR/MS offer to deal with these issues. Below, we brie?y introduce, peer reviewed, chapters of this handbook and the topics that are treated by the invited authors. The ?rst chapter is a general introduction to the challenges of environmental decision making, the use of OR/MS techniques and a range of tools that are used to deal with uncertainty in this domain.

Editors and Affiliations

  • ISST, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia

    Jerzy A. Filar

  • ORDECSYS / C-ORDEE, Chene-Bougeries, Switzerland

    Alain Haurie

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