Description |
1 online resource (x, 496 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Part 1. Environmental decision making : overview -- Introduction -- Decision-making concepts : introduction of basic concepts in environmental decision-making -- Getting started : a step by step outline of the rational decision analysis process -- Integrated assessment : comprehensive analysis of environmental impacts of projects -- Economics : a brief introduction to environmental resource economics -- Game theory : with applications to the management of common resources -- Preferences : elicitation of decision-maker values -- Willingness to pay : the value of environmental resources and services -- Part 2. The subjective experience : overview -- Ethics : ethical principles for environmental management -- Quality of life : recreation, cultural experience and life quality standards -- Aesthetics : the aesthetical value of landscape and cityscape -- Part 3. Ecological principles and processes : overview -- Ecology : ecological concepts -- Harvesting : sustainability, footprints, and harvesting economics -- Toxins : toxicity of pollutants for humans and ecosystems -- Soil and sediment : physics and chemistry of soils and sediments : soil loss and formation -- Hydrology : rain, runoff, evaporation and storage -- Part 4. The natural environment : overview -- Lake : surface water environments and water quality -- River : water environment : rivers and wetlands -- Terrestrial environment : habitat suitability in natural terrestrial environments -- Agriculture and land use : agriculture and land use with emphasis on developing countries -- Air : emission, dispersion, and effects of airborne pollution -- Climate : climate, ecosystems and anthropogenic emissions |
Summary |
"This book integrates decision-making and environmental science. For ecologists it will bridge the gap to economics. For practitioners in environmental economics and management it will be a major reference book. It probably contains the largest collection available of expressions and basic equations that are used in environmental sciences. Applying these expressions as "rules-of-thumb" will give participants in a decision-making process a common platform for discussion and arbitration."--Jacket |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-482) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Environmental policy -- Decision making
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Environmental economics -- Decision making
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Environmental economics -- Decision making.
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Environmental policy -- Decision making.
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Environmental policy -- Decision making
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Wenstøp, Fred, 1945-
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ISBN |
1402050674 |
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9781402050671 |
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