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Decision Consequence Analysis (DCA) is a framework for improving the quality of decision results. The framework is a systematic, multi-criteria quantification of uncertainties and the opportunities for managing and reducing the potential negative consequences of such uncertainties. DCA is demonstrat...
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Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9781856177979 |
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Decision Consequence Analysis (DCA) is a framework for improving the quality of decision results. The framework is a systematic, multi-criteria quantification of uncertainties and the opportunities for managing and reducing the potential negative consequences of such uncertainties. DCA is demonstrated throughout the text for each stage of system based management of environmental issues. DCA links disciplines and incorporates components of risk modelling, probability modelling and the psychology of decision making. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive unbiased decision making framework. Its foundation is accurately defining your problem statement and clearly vetting your objectives to build a structure for meaningful analysis of data. Employment of DCA consistently throughout the environmental industry can reduce decibel-driven, agenda-laden decision making, streamline expenditure of resources (financial, human, natural), and provide a clear path to the sustainable maintenance of balanced environmental systems as the penultimate objective. This book provides a toolbox to both the novice and experienced environmental practitioner of valuable techniques for addressing site specific environmental issues, as well as managing a portfolio of liabilities on an international scale. Ultimately, the authors are addressing the critical issue of balancing environmental asset balance sheets, whether on the scale of an individual project, across a company's portfolio, or for a community. The environmental manager who adopts the principles in this book will have greater confidence that environmental protection or restoration activities are providing measurable utility. The goal is that, through multidimensional resource management analysis and practices companies and societies can achieve sustainable maintenance of a balanced environmental system. Descriptions of technical, contracting and implementation processes are supported by detailed case studies to provide real world con |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 497 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781856177979 1856177971 9780080963013 0080963013 |
| Index Number: | HD108 |
| CLC: | F301.2 |
| Contents: | Part One: FOUNDATION FOR DECISION MAKING -- 1. Defining Problem and Objectives -- 2. Data Management and Mining -- 3. GIS -- 4. Remote Sensing -- 5. Statistics -- 6. Forensics Analysis -- 7. Risk Analysis -- Part Two: DECISION ANLYSIS -- 8. Alternatives Analysis -- Billy -- 9. Uncertainty and Tradeoff Analysis -- 10. Robust Performance Metrics -- 11. DCA Model Construction -- Part Three: DECISION IMPLEMENTATION -- 12. Sustainable Diverse Stakeholder Engagement -- 13. Implementation Tools -- Part Four: SUSTAINABLE LIABILITY MANAGEMENT -- 14. Portfolio Risk Management Analysis -- 15. Environmental Balance Sheet. |