Rationalizing environmental decision-making through economic valuation?

[Economic evaluation and decision making in environmental health].

Due to the increasing deterioration of the environment and its possible consequences for the health of the population the design and implementation of policies for the control of economic activities according to criteria for the protection of human health and the environment itself have become an unquestionable need. Such policies would include the economic feasibility of existing alternatives ...

Economic Evaluation of Environmental Health Interventions to Support Decision Making

Environmental burden of disease represents one quarter of overall disease burden, hence necessitating greater attention from decision makers both inside and outside the health sector. Economic evaluation techniques such as cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis provide key information to health decision makers on the efficiency of environmental health interventions, assisting the...

Optimal Cropping Pattern Modifications with the Aim of Environmental-Economic Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Sustainability in agricultural is determined by aspects like economy, society and environment. Multi-objective programming (MOP) model has been a widely used tool for studying and analyzing the sustainability of agricultural system. However, optimization models in most applications are forced to use data which is uncertain. Recently, robust optimization has been used as an optimization model th...

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making

Economic Decision-Making for Architectures

There is often a lack of connection between how executives and managers define and foresee value and how architects enable or disable those value propositions through their design decisions. This lack of effective communication causes the partnership between architects and executives to be a weak one. Opportunities are often missed where the architect may not only serve, but also inform executi...