Energy Decisions and the Environment: A Guide to the Use of Multicriteria Methods

di Benjamin F. Hobbs (Autore)

Peter Meier (Autore)

Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2012

Planning, operating, and policy making in the electric utility and natural gas sectors involves important trade-offs among economic, social, and environmental criteria. These trade-offs figure prominently in ongoing debates about how to meet growing energy demands and how to restructure the world's power industry. Energy Decisions and the Environment: A Guide to the Use of Multicriteria Methods reviews practical tools for multicriteria (also called multiobjective) decision analysis that can be used to quantify trade-offs and contribute to more consistent, informed, and transparent decision making. These methods are designed to generate and effectively communicate information about trade-offs; to help people form, articulate, and apply value judgments in decision making; and to promote effective negotiation among stakeholders with competing interests. Energy Decisions and the Environment: A Guide to the Use of Multicriteria Methods includes explanations of a wide range of methods, tutorial applications that readers can duplicate, a detailed review of energy-environment applications, and three in-depth case studies.

• Autore: Benjamin F. Hobbs, Peter Meier
• Editore: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Collana: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
• Anno: 2012
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 257 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9781461370178

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