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- catalog abstract ""This book is concerned with the need to deal adequately with uncertainty in environmental decision making. The author advances a critique of the use of traditional models and then develops an alternative model of decision making under uncertainty, based on the work of George Shackle." "Richard Young forwards a critique of the conventional expected utility approach and, using an alternative conceptualisation of environmental uncertainty, contends that there are a number of different modes of uncertainty and that many environmental decisions are characterised by what is termed 'hard uncertainty'. The presence of hard uncertainty radically alters the way in which environmental uncertainty can be dealt with at both an epistemological and a practice level, and poses a number of problems for traditional decision making frameworks based on probability. The author goes on to apply the model to a case study of the Belize Southern Highway - the first major application of Shackle's theory in the context of environmental economics." "Detailing and explaining practical and theoretical approaches, this book will interest and inform academics in the fields of environmental economics, environmental science, geography, economics and social science, as well as decision makers in governmental and non-governmental agencies."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12391004.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Detailing and explaining practical and theoretical approaches, this book will interest and inform academics in the fields of environmental economics, environmental science, geography, economics and social science, as well as decision makers in governmental and non-governmental agencies."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Richard Young forwards a critique of the conventional expected utility approach and, using an alternative conceptualisation of environmental uncertainty, contends that there are a number of different modes of uncertainty and that many environmental decisions are characterised by what is termed 'hard uncertainty'. The presence of hard uncertainty radically alters the way in which environmental uncertainty can be dealt with at both an epistemological and a practice level, and poses a number of problems for traditional decision making frameworks based on probability. The author goes on to apply the model to a case study of the Belize Southern Highway - the first major application of Shackle's theory in the context of environmental economics."".
- catalog description ""This book is concerned with the need to deal adequately with uncertainty in environmental decision making. The author advances a critique of the use of traditional models and then develops an alternative model of decision making under uncertainty, based on the work of George Shackle."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-237) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 249 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Uncertainty and the environment.".
- catalog identifier "1840646268".
- catalog isFormatOf "Uncertainty and the environment.".
- catalog isPartOf "New horizons in environmental economics".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : E. Elgar,".
- catalog relation "Uncertainty and the environment.".
- catalog subject "333.7 21".
- catalog subject "Environmental policy Decision making.".
- catalog subject "Environmental policy Economic aspects.".
- catalog subject "HC79.E5 Y69 2001".
- catalog title "Uncertainty and the environment : implications for decision making and environmental policy / Richard A. Young.".
- catalog type "text".