The challenges facing poor and marginalised communities in today’s society are multiple and complex; from economic crises, to natural disasters, to environmental degradation and conflict, all of which are increasing poor people’s vulnerability and posing significant challenges to securing their livelihoods. Climate change threatens to exacerbate the problem further by creating an additional lay...

Environmental risk assessment is an essential element in any decision-making process in order to minimize the effects of human activities on the environment. Unfortunately, often environmental data tends to be vague and imprecise, so uncertainty is associated with any study related with these kind of data. Essentially, uncertainty in risk assessment may have two origins – randomness and incompl...

The generator’s competition strategy has become a pressing research field since the opening of power market. In real market situation Generators have to deal with capacity allocation among different markets (i.e. day-ahead spot market, contract market and ancillary service market) and competition strategy optimization simultaneously. However these two interrelated problems have been studied sep...

The effect of environmental uncertainty in research on organizational structure has received considerable attention. However, the capability of knowledge management in helping organizational structures deal with uncertainty has not been examined. Thus, this study builds and tests an integrated model to investigate the relationship among environmental uncertainty, knowledge management capability...

Comparing the performance of a set of activities or organizations under uncertainty environment has been performed by means of Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis (FDEA) since the traditional DEA models require accurate and precise performance data. As regards a method for dealing with uncertainty environment, many researchers have introduced DEA models in fuzzy environment. Some of these models ar...

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing competitio...