A primer on environmental decision-making: an integrative quantitative approach
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Part 1. Environmental decision making : overview -- Introduction -- Decision-making concepts : introduction of basic concepts in environmental decision-making -- Getting started : a step by step outline of the rational decision analysis process -- Integrated assessment : comprehensive analysis of environmental impacts of projects -- Economics : a brief introduction to environmental resource economics -- Game theory : with applications to the management of common resources -- Preferences : elicitation of decision-maker values -- Willingness to pay : the value of environmental resources and services -- Part 2. The subjective experience : overview -- Ethics : ethical principles for environmental management -- Quality of life : recreation, cultural experience and life quality standards -- Aesthetics : the aesthetical value of landscape and cityscape -- Part 3. Ecological principles and processes : overview -- Ecology : ecological concepts -- Harvesting : sustainability, footprints, and harvesting economics -- Toxins : toxicity of pollutants for humans and ecosystems -- Soil and sediment : physics and chemistry of soils and sediments : soil loss and formation -- Hydrology : rain, runoff, evaporation and storage -- Part 4. The natural environment : overview -- Lake : surface water environments and water quality -- River : water environment : rivers and wetlands -- Terrestrial environment : habitat suitability in natural terrestrial environments -- Agriculture and land use : agriculture and land use with emphasis on developing countries -- Air : emission, dispersion, and effects of airborne pollution -- Climate : climate, ecosystems and anthropogenic emissions.
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