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“robert lempert”

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  • Uncertainty in Climate Change Research

    An Integrated Approach

    Edited by Linda O. Mearns, Chris E. Forest, Hayley J. Fowler, Robert Lempert, Robert L. Wilby ...
    This edited volume with open access discusses all aspects of uncertainty in climate change research, with a unique emphasis on decision making under uncertainty and the assessment of various uncertainties in the landscape of decision making. By analyzing uncertainty through the lens of decision making, the book seeks to understand and assess the various uncertainties inherent in climate change ... Read more

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  • Climate Uncertainty and Risk

    Rethinking Our Response

    by Judith Curry ...
    Series series Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
    World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows how we can break this gridlock. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty

    From Theory to Practice

    Edited by Vincent A. W. J. Marchau, Warren E. Walker, Pieter J. T. M. Bloemen, Steven W. Popper ...
    This open access book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face of deep uncertainty. It explores approaches and tools supporting the design of strategic plans under deep uncertainty, and their testing in the real world, including barriers and enablers for their use in practice. The book broadens traditional approaches and tools ... Read more

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  • Climate Change in the 21st Century

    by Stewart Cohen, Melissa Waddell ...
    Public and media interest in the climate change issue has increased exponentially in recent years. Climate change, or "global warming," is a complex problem with far-reaching social and economic impacts. Climate Change in the 21st Century brings together all the major aspects of global warming to give a state of the art description of our collective understanding of this phenomenon and what can be ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Towards the “Perfect” Weather Warning

    Bridging Disciplinary Gaps through Partnership and Communication

    Edited by Brian Golding ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is about making weather warnings more effective in saving lives, property, infrastructure and livelihoods, but the underlying theme of the book is partnership. The book represents the warning process as a pathway linking observations to weather forecasts to hazard forecasts to socio-economic impact forecasts to warning messages to the protective decision, via a set of five bridges that ... Read more

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  • Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy

    Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon Society

    Edited by Haris Doukas, Alexandros Flamos, Jenny Lieu ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance and portfolio analysis in climate policy, and presents methods for evaluating the costs and benefits of ... Read more

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  • Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions

    by Jorge Soberón, Enrique Martínez-Meyer, Miguel Nakamura, A. Townsend Peterson, Richard G. Pearson, Robert P. Anderson, Miguel B. Araújo ...
    Series Book 49 - Monographs in Population Biology
    This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography, linking individual- and population-level processes to geographic distributions and biodiversity patterns. Problems in evolutionary ecology, macroecology, and biogeography are illuminated by this integrative view. The book focuses on correlative approaches known as ecological niche modeling, species ... Read more

    $55.49 USD

  • Theory and Practice in Policy Analysis

    Including Applications in Science and Technology

    by M. Granger Morgan ...
    Many books instruct readers on how to use the tools of policy analysis. This book is different. Its primary focus is on helping readers to look critically at the strengths, limitations, and the underlying assumptions analysts make when they use standard tools or problem framings. Using examples, many of which involve issues in science and technology, the book exposes readers to some of the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems

    Edited by Reinette Biggs, Alta de Vos, Rika Preiser, Hayley Clements, Kristine Maciejewski, Maja Schlüter ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems provides a synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems (SES) research.The book is primarily targeted at graduate students, lecturers and researchers working on SES, and has been written in a style that is accessible to readers entering the field from a variety of different ... Read more

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  • Climate Change in Practice

    Topics for Discussion with Group Exercises

    by Robert L. Wilby ...
    Derived from an undergraduate course taught by the author, this accessible book seeks to challenge and provoke readers by posing a series of topical questions concerning climate change and society. Topic summaries provide answers to technical, socio-economic and moral questions surrounding the deployment of climate science. These include how to build and test a climate model, whom and what is most ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Climate Risk and Business

    New Challenges for Organizations

    by Anna Dowbiggin ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Addressing the urgency of radical decarbonization as a mitigative response to climate risk, this book explores how business can respond to the challenges of climate risk, through various transformational processes. Those processes involve cognitive transformations, organizational changes, climate risk integration into risk management practices, shifts in corporate reporting and disclosure as well ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • System Dynamics

    Modelling and Simulation

    by Bilash Kanti Bala, Fatimah Mohamed Arshad, Kusairi Mohd Noh ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book covers the broad spectrum of system dynamics methodologies for the modelling and simulation of complex systems: systems thinking, causal diagrams, systems structure of stock and flow diagrams, parameter estimation and tests for confidence building in system dynamics models. It includes a comprehensive review of model validation and policy design and provides a practical presentation of ... Read more

    $71.99 USD