Ebook: Real-Time and Deliberative Decision Making: Application to Emerging Stressors

Decision-making tools are needed to support environmental management in an increasingly global economy. Addressing threats and identifying actions to mitigate those threats necessitates an understanding of the basic risk assessment paradigm and the tools of risk analysis to assess, interpret, and communicate risks. It also requires modification of the risk paradigm itself to incorporate a complex array of quantitative and qualitative information that shapes the unique political and ecological challenges of different countries and regions around the world. This book builds a foundation to characterize and assess a broad range of human and ecological stressors, and risk management approaches to address those stressors, using chemical risk assessment methods and multi-criteria decision analysis tools. Chapters discuss the current state-of-knowledge with regard to emerging stressors and risk management, focusing on the adequacy of available systematic, quantitative tools to guide vulnerability and threat assessments, evaluate the consequences of different events and responses, and support decision-making. This book opens a dialogue on aspects of risk assessment and decision analysis that apply to real-time (immediate) and deliberative (long-term) risk management processes.

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Decision-making tools are needed to support environmental management in an increasingly global economy. Addressing threats and identifying actions to mitigate those threats necessitates an understanding of the basic risk assessment paradigm and the tools of risk analysis to assess, interpret, and communicate risks. It also requires modification of the risk paradigm itself to incorporate a complex array of quantitative and qualitative information that shapes the unique political and ecological challenges of different countries and regions around the world. This book builds a foundation to characterize and assess a broad range of human and ecological stressors, and risk management approaches to address those stressors, using chemical risk assessment methods and multi-criteria decision analysis tools. Chapters discuss the current state-of-knowledge with regard to emerging stressors and risk management, focusing on the adequacy of available systematic, quantitative tools to guide vulnerability and threat assessments, evaluate the consequences of different events and responses, and support decision-making. This book opens a dialogue on aspects of risk assessment and decision analysis that apply to real-time (immediate) and deliberative (long-term) risk management processes.

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Decision-making tools are needed to support environmental management in an increasingly global economy. Addressing threats and identifying actions to mitigate those threats necessitates an understanding of the basic risk assessment paradigm and the tools of risk analysis to assess, interpret, and communicate risks. It also requires modification of the risk paradigm itself to incorporate a complex array of quantitative and qualitative information that shapes the unique political and ecological challenges of different countries and regions around the world. This book builds a foundation to characterize and assess a broad range of human and ecological stressors, and risk management approaches to address those stressors, using chemical risk assessment methods and multi-criteria decision analysis tools. Chapters discuss the current state-of-knowledge with regard to emerging stressors and risk management, focusing on the adequacy of available systematic, quantitative tools to guide vulnerability and threat assessments, evaluate the consequences of different events and responses, and support decision-making. This book opens a dialogue on aspects of risk assessment and decision analysis that apply to real-time (immediate) and deliberative (long-term) risk management processes.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Cognitive Aspects of Business Innovation....Pages 3-20
A Synopsis of Immediate and Deliberate Environmental Assessments....Pages 21-29
Federal Decision Making for Homeland Security....Pages 31-53
Group Information-Seeking Behavior in Emergency Response....Pages 55-76
The Use of War Game Simulations for Business Strategies....Pages 77-90
An Integrated Approach for Flood Risk Management....Pages 91-101
Rationale and Development of a Scale to Communicate Environmental and Other Community Risks....Pages 103-126
Nanomaterial Risk Assessment and Risk Management....Pages 129-157
Estimation of Effect Thresholds for the Development of Water Quality Criteria....Pages 159-178
Comprehensive Risk Assessment....Pages 179-190
DPSIR and Risk Assessment of Dumped Chemical Warfare Agents in the Baltic Sea....Pages 191-201
Social and Ecological Challenges Within the Realm of Environmental Security....Pages 203-211
Adaptive Management and the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan....Pages 213-221
Uncertainty Modeling with Imprecise Statistical Reasoning and the Precautionary Principle in Decision Making....Pages 225-239
SMAA-III....Pages 241-253
Attracting Additional Information for Enhancing the Uncertainty Model....Pages 255-264
Modeling Stakeholder Preferences with Probabilistic Inversion....Pages 265-284
Operations Research and Decision Analysis....Pages 285-303
Multicriteria Decision Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment....Pages 305-314
Decision Evaluation for Complex Environmental Risk Networked Systems (DECERNS)....Pages 315-328
Sustainable Management of Water Resources and Minimization of Environmental Risks....Pages 329-348
Avoiding MCDA Evaluation Pitfalls....Pages 349-353
Approaches Used for Remedy Selection at Contaminated Sediment Sites....Pages 357-377
Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Choosing the Remediation Method for a Landfill Based on Mixed Ordinal and Cardinal Information....Pages 379-395
Ordinal Measurements with Interval Constraints in the EIA Process for Siting a Waste Storage Area....Pages 397-413
Balancing Socioeconomic and Environmental Risks and Benefits under Multiple Stressor Conditions....Pages 415-425
Risk Assessment of Radionuclide Contamination in Potable Water....Pages 427-434
Assessment of Groundwater Contamination Risk from Nonchemical Stressors in Wastewater....Pages 435-444
Wastewater Reuse....Pages 445-450
Back Matter....Pages 451-456

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Decision-making tools are needed to support environmental management in an increasingly global economy. Addressing threats and identifying actions to mitigate those threats necessitates an understanding of the basic risk assessment paradigm and the tools of risk analysis to assess, interpret, and communicate risks. It also requires modification of the risk paradigm itself to incorporate a complex array of quantitative and qualitative information that shapes the unique political and ecological challenges of different countries and regions around the world. This book builds a foundation to characterize and assess a broad range of human and ecological stressors, and risk management approaches to address those stressors, using chemical risk assessment methods and multi-criteria decision analysis tools. Chapters discuss the current state-of-knowledge with regard to emerging stressors and risk management, focusing on the adequacy of available systematic, quantitative tools to guide vulnerability and threat assessments, evaluate the consequences of different events and responses, and support decision-making. This book opens a dialogue on aspects of risk assessment and decision analysis that apply to real-time (immediate) and deliberative (long-term) risk management processes.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Cognitive Aspects of Business Innovation....Pages 3-20
A Synopsis of Immediate and Deliberate Environmental Assessments....Pages 21-29
Federal Decision Making for Homeland Security....Pages 31-53
Group Information-Seeking Behavior in Emergency Response....Pages 55-76
The Use of War Game Simulations for Business Strategies....Pages 77-90
An Integrated Approach for Flood Risk Management....Pages 91-101
Rationale and Development of a Scale to Communicate Environmental and Other Community Risks....Pages 103-126
Nanomaterial Risk Assessment and Risk Management....Pages 129-157
Estimation of Effect Thresholds for the Development of Water Quality Criteria....Pages 159-178
Comprehensive Risk Assessment....Pages 179-190
DPSIR and Risk Assessment of Dumped Chemical Warfare Agents in the Baltic Sea....Pages 191-201
Social and Ecological Challenges Within the Realm of Environmental Security....Pages 203-211
Adaptive Management and the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan....Pages 213-221
Uncertainty Modeling with Imprecise Statistical Reasoning and the Precautionary Principle in Decision Making....Pages 225-239
SMAA-III....Pages 241-253
Attracting Additional Information for Enhancing the Uncertainty Model....Pages 255-264
Modeling Stakeholder Preferences with Probabilistic Inversion....Pages 265-284
Operations Research and Decision Analysis....Pages 285-303
Multicriteria Decision Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment....Pages 305-314
Decision Evaluation for Complex Environmental Risk Networked Systems (DECERNS)....Pages 315-328
Sustainable Management of Water Resources and Minimization of Environmental Risks....Pages 329-348
Avoiding MCDA Evaluation Pitfalls....Pages 349-353
Approaches Used for Remedy Selection at Contaminated Sediment Sites....Pages 357-377
Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Choosing the Remediation Method for a Landfill Based on Mixed Ordinal and Cardinal Information....Pages 379-395
Ordinal Measurements with Interval Constraints in the EIA Process for Siting a Waste Storage Area....Pages 397-413
Balancing Socioeconomic and Environmental Risks and Benefits under Multiple Stressor Conditions....Pages 415-425
Risk Assessment of Radionuclide Contamination in Potable Water....Pages 427-434
Assessment of Groundwater Contamination Risk from Nonchemical Stressors in Wastewater....Pages 435-444
Wastewater Reuse....Pages 445-450
Back Matter....Pages 451-456
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