Quantifying environmental impact assessments using fuzzy logic
Environmental impact assessments are required for a wide-range of projects throughout the world. These assessments have increasing involved complex, political decision-making and incorporated values and beliefs of both stakeholders and interested parties. However, the results are often ineffective because values and beliefs are not easily quantifiable, and decisions are considered subjective. This analysis recognizes these problems and proposes practical methods based on fuzzy logic that will e…
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- Full title :Quantifying environmental impact assessments using fuzzy logic / Richard B. Shepard.
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Environmental impact assessments are required for a wide-range of projects throughout the world. These assessments have increasing involved complex, political decision-making and incorporated values and beliefs of both stakeholders and interested parties. However, the results are often ineffective because values and beliefs are not easily quantifiable, and decisions are considered subjective. This analysis recognizes these problems and proposes practical methods based on fuzzy logic that will enable people preparing assessments to define terms and quantify opinions and input so that they are agreed upon by all involved parties. Fuzzy logic also quantifies the complex environmental, economic and social conditions that are present and are predicted by project alternatives. The author places special emphasis on the types of issues that frequently arise in NEPA environmental assessments and environmental impact statements and in similar regulations that are used in jurisdictions regionally and internationally. The new methods are intended to reduce the time and cost of assessments, while producing justifiable results. -- Publisher description.
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- Publication Date:©2005.
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- Publisher(s):Springer
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxiii, 264 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0387243984, 9780387243986
- oclc:ocm57506575
- LC Classification:TD194.6
- Dewey Decimal:333.71/4
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