Risks and Decisions for Conservation and Environmental Management
Risks and Decisions for Conservation and Environmental Management
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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.
- Sets a professional standard for risk analysis
- Transcends disciplinary boundaries
- Provides sufficient detail to allow methods to be implemented without prior technical training
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"The author outlines how to conduct a complete environmental risk management study."
Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and the Environment
Product details
May 2005Adobe eBook Reader
9780511081262
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112 b/w illus. 50 tables
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Table of Contents
- 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.
