Quantifying Environmental Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic

Name: Quantifying Environmental Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic
Brand: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
SKU: 9781441920294
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Autor: Richard B. Shepard

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Fuzzy logic enables people preparing environmental impact statements to quantify complex environment...

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Autor

Richard B. Shepard

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2010

Stránok

264

EAN

9781441920294

ISBN

1441920293

Enbook ID

01420906

Vydavateľ

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

Hmotnosť

444

Rozmery

155 x 235 x 235

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Fuzzy logic enables people preparing environmental impact statements to quantify complex environmental, economic and social conditions. This reduces the time and cost of assessments, while producing justifiable results.Environmental impact assessments are required for a wide range of projects throughout the world. These assessments have increasingly 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 and legally defensible results. §First, issues related to current environmental impact assessment methods are discussed. Then the book discusses how lessons learned from computational intelligence can address these problems. It describes how a systematic, logical approach to environmental assessment can be applied to a variety of complex situations. Finally, the design and implementation of a more objective and powerful assessment is demonstrated through a worked example. Explanations of computational intelligence techniques and discussions of helpful software are intended to benefit those people actually preparing and using environmental assessments--in language that makes the process transparent and transferable to all types of systems.

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