Uncertainty and the Environment
Richard A. Young · 2002
Where to buy
Amazon’s price changes daily, so the most accurate place to see it is there, at the moment you buy.
View on AmazonThis is an affiliate link: if you buy through it, the site earns a small commission at no extra cost to you, which helps us bring quality content and maintain the site. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
About the book
"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.
Book details
- Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Pub
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 249
- ISBN
- 9781840646269
Data source: Wikidata
