Mathematical Modelling for Sustainable Development

Many people are convinced that Sustainable Development and Mathematics are completely unrelated. Sustainable Development, in its role of a value laden imperative for polluting and over-consuming societies, seems to be totally unconnected to mathematical reasoning and ignorant of the values behind it...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hersh, Marion (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Colección:Environmental Engineering
Temas:
Economics.
Environmental sciences-Mathematics.
Pollution.
Environmental economics.
Probabilities.
Econometrics.
Mathematical Applications in Environmental Science.
Environmental Economics.
Probability Theory.
Quantitative Economics.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sustainable Development: An Overview
  • Holistic Approaches and Systems Methodologies
  • to Systems Ideas
  • Engineering Mathematics Representations
  • State Space System Representations
  • Mental Models, Sense Making and Risk
  • Systems Methodologies
  • Case Study: Reduction of Domestic Waste
  • Decision Making and Multi-Criteria Optimisation
  • Optimisation
  • Mathematical Background to Decision Making
  • Multi-Criteria Problems
  • Multi-Criteria Decision Support Methods
  • Case Study: Waste Management Options
  • Fuzzy Systems
  • to Fuzzy Sets
  • Fuzzy Set Operations
  • Augmented, Intuitionistic & Type 2 Fuzzy Sets
  • Augmented Fuzzy Set Ordering Algorithm and Third Order Augmented Fuzzy Sets
  • Case Study: Transport Decision Making
  • Looking Back and Moving Forward.

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