Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making

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.

• Climate Change
• Environmental Management
• Environmental economics
• Greenhouse Gas
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Operations Research
• biodiversity
• development
• linear optimization

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

  Jerzy A. Filar

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

  Alain Haurie

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