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Risks and Decisions for Conservation and Environmental Management

Mark Burgman
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      This book outlines how to conduct a complete environmental risk assessment. The first part documents the psychology and philosophy of risk perception and assessment, introducing a taxonomy of uncertainty and the importance of context. It provides a critical examination of the use and abuse of expert judgement and goes on to outline approaches to hazard identification and subjective ranking that account for uncertainty and context. The second part of the book describes technical tools that can assist risk assessments to be transparent and internally consistent. These include interval arithmetic, ecotoxicological methods, logic trees and Monte Carlo simulation. These methods have an established place in risk assessments in many disciplines and their strengths and weaknesses are explored. The last part of the book outlines some new approaches, including p-bounds and information-gap theory, and describes how quantitative and subjective assessments can be used to make transparent decisions.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Mark Burgman EAN: 9780521543019 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 848 g HEIGHT: 227 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2005-04-07 CITY: GENRE: NATURE / Ecology WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Environmental management

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      Mark Burgman is Professor of Environmental Science in the University of Melbourne, Australia.
      This book outlines how to conduct a complete environmental risk assessment. The first part documents the psychology and philosophy of risk perception and assessment, introducing a taxonomy of uncertainty and the importance of context. It provides a critical examination of the use and abuse of expert judgement and goes on to outline approaches to hazard identification and subjective ranking that account for uncertainty and context. The second part of the book describes technical tools that can assist risk assessments to be transparent and internally consistent. These include interval arithmetic, ecotoxicological methods, logic trees and Monte Carlo simulation. These methods have an established place in risk assessments in many disciplines and their strengths and weaknesses are explored. The last part of the book outlines some new approaches, including p-bounds and information-gap theory, and describes how quantitative and subjective assessments can be used to make transparent decisions.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Mark Burgman EAN: 9780521543019 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 848 g HEIGHT: 227 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2005-04-07 CITY: GENRE: NATURE / Ecology WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Environmental management

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      Mark Burgman is Professor of Environmental Science in the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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