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Coping with risk in agriculture /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hardaker, J. B. (Author), Anderson, Jock R., 1941- (Author), Huirne, Ruud B. M. (Author), Lien, Gudbrand (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2004.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Farm management > Decision making.
Farm management > Risk assessment.
Agricultural Economics.
Mathematics and Statistics.
Policy and Planning.
Agricultural policy.
Agricultural sector.
Attitudes.
Decision making.
Optimization.
Risk.
Simulation.
Statistical analysis.
Stochastic processes.
Uncertainty.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to risk in agriculture
  • Decision analysis : outline and basic assumptions
  • Measuring uncertainty with subjective probabilities
  • Making better probability judgements
  • Attitudes to risky consequences
  • Integrating beliefs and preferences for decision analysis
  • Decision analysis with preferences unknown
  • Stochastic simulation
  • Risk and mathematical programming models
  • Decision analysis with multiple objectives
  • Risky decision making and time
  • Strategies decision makers can use to manage risk
  • Risk considerations in agricultural policy making.