Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Values, history and perception
- 2 Kinds of uncertainty
- 3 Conventions and the risk management cycle
- 4 Experts, stakeholders and elicitation
- 5 Conceptual models and hazard assessment
- 6 Risk ranking
- 7 Ecotoxicology
- 8 Logic trees and decisions
- 9 Interval arithmetic
- 10 Monte Carlo
- 11 Inference, decisions, monitoring and updating
- 12 Decisions and risk management
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- References
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Values, history and perception
- 2 Kinds of uncertainty
- 3 Conventions and the risk management cycle
- 4 Experts, stakeholders and elicitation
- 5 Conceptual models and hazard assessment
- 6 Risk ranking
- 7 Ecotoxicology
- 8 Logic trees and decisions
- 9 Interval arithmetic
- 10 Monte Carlo
- 11 Inference, decisions, monitoring and updating
- 12 Decisions and risk management
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- References
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