Environmental Modelling, Software and Decision Support - State of the Art and New Perspective

Modeling and software have become key instruments used to promote sustainability and improve environmental decision processes, especially through systematic integration of various knowledge and data and their ability to foster learning and help make predictions. This book presents the advances in environmental modeling and software.

List of contents

1.Modelling and Software as Instruments for Advancing Sustainability
2.Good Modelling Practice
3.Bridging the Gaps between Design and Use: Developing Tools to Support Environmental Management and Policy
4.Complexity and Uncertainty: Rethinking the Modelling Activity
5.Uncertainty in Environmental Decision Making: Issues, Challenges and Future Directions
6.Environmental Policy Aid under Uncertainty
7.Integrated Modelling Frameworks for Environmental Assessment and Decision Support
8.Intelligent Environmental Decision Support Systems
9.Formal Scenario Development for Environmental Impact Assessment Studies
10.Free and Open Source Geospatial Tools for Environmental Modelling and Management
11.Modelling and Monitoring Environmental Outcomes in Adaptive Management
12.Data Mining for Environmental Systems
13.Generic Simulation Models for Facilitating Stakeholder Involvement in Water Resources Planning and Management: a Comparison, Evaluation, and Identification of Future Needs
14.Computational Air Quality Modelling
15. State of the Art in Methods and Software for the Identification, Resolution and Apportionment of Contamination Sources
16.Regional Models of Intermediate Complexity (Remics) - A New Direction in Integrated Landscape Modelling
17.Challenges in Earth System Modelling: Approaches and Applications
18.Uncertainty and Sensitivity Issues in Process-Based Models of Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles in Terrestrial Ecosystems
19.Model-Data Fusion in the Studies of Terrestrial Carbon Sink
20.Building a Community Modelling and Information Sharing Culture

Product details

• Authors: Anthony J. Voinov Jakeman, Tony Jakeman, JAKEMAN ANTHONY J VOINOV ALEXEY
• Assisted by: Serena H. Chen (Editor), Chen Serena H. (Editor), Anthony J. Jakeman (Editor), Tony Jakeman (Editor), Jakeman Anthony J. (Editor), Andrea E. Rizzoli (Editor), Andrea Emilio Rizzoli (Editor), Rizzoli Andrea E. (Editor), Alexey Voinov (Editor), Alexey A. Voinov (Editor), Alexey A. (Johns Hopkins University and Fellow at Gund Institute for Ecological Economics Voinov (Editor), Voinov Alexey A. (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2008
• EAN: 9780080568867
• ISBN: 978-0-08-056886-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Developments in Integrated Environmental Assessment; Developments in Integrated Environmental Assessment
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; The environment, Science / Environmental Science