Risks and Decisions for Conservation and Environmental Management

Informationen zum Autor Mark Burgman is Professor of Environmental Science in the University of Melbourne, Australia. Klappentext Emphasizing the philosophy of uncertainty and the frailties of human psychology when people are confronted with risky situations! this book describes how to conduct a thorough environmental risk assessment. Technical methods are provided to help make assessments more objective and less prone to the biases of those involved in the assessment. Consideration is given to the way in which both subjective beliefs and technical analysis may be used to make better informed decisions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Values, history and perception; 2. Kinds of uncertainty; 3. Conventions and the risk management cycle; 4. Experts, stakeholders and elicitation; 5. Conceptual models and hazard assessment; 6. Risk ranking; 7. Ecotoxicology; 8. Logic trees and decisions; 9. Defining and eliciting intervals; 10. Monte Carlo; 11. Inference, decisions, monitoring and updating; 12. Decisions and risk management; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Burgman, Mark (University of Melbourne) Burgman
• Assisted by: Denis Saunders (Editor), Michael Usher (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2005
• EAN: 9780521543019
• ISBN: 978-0-521-54301-9
• No. of pages: 504
• Series: Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation; Ecology, Biodiversity and Cons; Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management