Coping with Uncertainty | Modeling and Policy Issues

Kurt Marti (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 3540352589 / ISBN 13: 9783540352587

Published by Springer, 2006

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Coping with Uncertainty | Modeling and Policy Issues | Kurt Marti (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | xiii | Englisch | 2006 | Springer | EAN 9783540352587 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Coping with Uncertainty | Modeling and Policy Issues
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540352589
• ISBN 13: 9783540352587
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 19W x 155H x 235D millimeters 19 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 235 millimeters depth
• Weight: 490 grams
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Synopsis

Ongoing global changes bring fundamentally new scientific problems requiring new concepts and tools. A key issue concerns a vast variety of practically irreducible uncertainties, which challenge our traditional models and require new concepts and analytical tools. The uncertainty critically dominantes, e.g., the climate change debates. In short, the dilemma is concerned with enormous costs vs. massive uncertainties of potential extreme impacts. Traditional scientific approaches usually rely on real observations and experiments. Yet no sufficient observations exist for new problems, and "pure" experiments and learning by doing may be very expensive, dangerous, or simply impossible. In addition, available historical observations are contaminated by actions, policies. The complexity of new problems does not allow to achieve enough certainty by increasing the resolution of models or by bringing in more links. Hence, new tools for modeling and management of uncertainty are needed, as given in this book.