Collaborative modeling and decision-making for complex energy systems / Ali Mostashari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mostashari, Ali.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy policy--Decision making.

Energy policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume provides the fundamentals of involving stakeholders in collaborative modeling of energy systems, including the technical subsystem as well as its economic, social, environmental and political subsystems. It presents a Stakeholder-Assisted Modeling and Policy Design (SAM-PD) framework that can be applied by energy system developers, managers and decisionmakers to involve a wide range of stakeholders in group model-building on a larger scale. By illustrating the capabilities of the SAM-PD framework, the book introduces an actual case study of the Cape Wind Offshore Wind Energy projec

Contents:

Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Systems Analysis; Chapter 3 The Role of Expert Analysis in Complex Systems Decisions; Chapter 4 Systems Representation and Decision-making; Chapter 5 Stakeholder-Assisted Modeling and Policy Design; Chapter 6 The Cape Wind Offshore Wind Energy Project; Chapter 7 Stakeholder-Assisted Modeling of Cape Wind; Chapter 8 Learning from Cape Wind; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613148667

9781283148665

1283148668

9789814335201

9814335207

OCLC:

733048541