Managing uncertainty in environmental decision-making within ecological constraints - A model based reasoning approach

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 1137-1149

  Siontoroua, Ch G ^a   Batzias, F A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Backcasting; Environmental decision making; Model based reasoning; Modeling; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891720555     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2012.07.506     Document Type: Conference Paper

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