Uncertainty and the environment : implications for decision making and environmental policy / Richard A. Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Richard, 1973-

Series:

New horizons in environmental economics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Decision making.

Environmental policy.

Environmental policy--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

xi, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : E. Elgar, [2001]

Contents:

1 Introduction: Dealing with uncertainty in environmental decision making 1

2 The decision-making context 21

3 Environmental uncertainty 38

4 Uncertainty and decision making 60

5 The Shackle model 86

6 Case study: The Belize Southern Highway 116

7 Methodology 132

8 Results of the application of the Shackle model 143

9 Discussion: A framework for the evaluation of hard uncertainty in environmental decision making 167

Appendix 2 Gain and loss scenarios 199

Appendix 3 Potential surprise and ascendancy/weighting functions 203

Appendix 4 Summary of results from regression of weighting/ascendancy function 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and index.

ISBN:

1840646268

OCLC:

45466236