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  title info:
    title: Value Functions for Environmental Management
  name:
    name part: Beinat, Euro.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages)
  abstract: Environmental decisions must satisfy a multitude of objectives and the matching of a plan, policy or project to such objectives is a matter of both facts and value judgements. Value Functions for Environmental Management provides a systematic approach to the structuring and measurement of value judgements, showing how they drive the decision process and how to make them transparent and effective in support of complex decisions. The value functions that the book describes provide a scheme for the exploration of human values and a tool for transforming them into an analytical model. A clear statement can then be made of the degree to which a decision has achieved its objectives, and how conflicting objectives may be addressed. This does not mean that there is no role for human judgement in the process. Complexity, often coupled with large information gaps, necessitates expert judgement, but the values adopted by the experts are themselves capable of being structured and measured according to the value function methodology presented here, even if the judgements themselves are qualitative and tentative. Value models for expert panels are also presented. The use of the methodology in practice is illustrated by examples. The book contains an extensive subject index.
  note: by Euro Beinat.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  classification: GE300-350
  classification: 333.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Environment & management ; 7
  identifier: 9789401588850 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401588856 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9789048148820
  identifier: 9048148820
  identifier: 9401588856
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  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 130409
    record change date: 20260422205822.8
    record identifier: in00003560882
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng