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By
Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Enrico Weber, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Andrea Castelletti, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics and Information, Milan, Italy
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Developments in IntegrateD Environmental Assessment,
Description
Covering the more recent advances in Modelling, Planning, Management and Negotiations for Integrated Water Resource Management, this text
brings together knowledge and concepts from Hydrology, System Analysis, Control Theory, Conflict Resolution, and Decision and Negotiation
Theory. Without compromising on mathematical rigour, the book maintains a fine line between theory and application, methodology and tools,
avoiding getting locked into excessively theoretical and formal development of the issues discussed. The non-technical aspects of water
resource systems (such as societal, political and legal concerns) are recognized throughout the book as having a great, if not fundamental,
importance to reaching an agreed-upon decision; they are therefore integrated into the more technical and mathematical issues. The book
provides a unified, coordinated and comprehensive framework that will facilitate the increasingly appropriate application of the Integrated
Water Resource Management paradigm by current and future practising professionals, decision-makers and scientists.
Audience
Undergraduate, graduate and PhD students, junior and senior researchers on all the university courses related to Water Engineering, Water
Resource Management, Water Resource Planning, as well as racticing professionals (engineering consultants and water agencies)
Contents
A Global View. 1. Making Decisions: a Difficult Problem. 2. From the Decision Making Procedure to MODDSS. B. The Elements of the Problems.
3. Actions, Criteria and Indicators. 4. Systems, Models and Indicators. 5. Modelling the Components. 6. Aggregated Models. C. Decision
Making in the Full Rationality Conditions. 7. Identifying the Optimal Alternative. 8. Choosing among Infinite Alternatives. 9. Dealing
with Risk and Uncertainty. 10. Planning the Management. 11. The Design Problem with sv Policies. 12. Off-line Non-Learning-Based Policies.
13. Off-line Learning Policies. 14. On-Line Policies. 15. Distribution Policies. D. Decision Making in Partial Rationality Conditions.
16. The Decision-Making process. 17. Choosing the Decision-Making Method. 18. Identifying Efficient Alternatives.19. Estimating the Effects.
20. Evaluation. 21. Comparison, Negotiations and the Final Decision. 22. Mitigation and compensation. E. MODSS. 23. Software Architecture
of MODSSs. Appendices.
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 582 pages, publication date: JUL-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-53013-4
ISBN-10: 0-444-53013-4
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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GBP 90
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Last update: 7 Jul 2008
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