Sustainability: Complexity, regulations and decisions

Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk: Analysis, Modeling, and Management - Proceedings of the ICVRAM 2011 and ISUMA 2011 Conferences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 222-229

  Rodriguez Nikl, Tonatiuh ^a   Brown, Colin B ^a,b  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL ENGINEERS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; RATIONAL DECISION MAKING; RULES AND REGULATIONS; SYSTEM BOUNDARY; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 79958089976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41170(400)27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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