Environmental Security in Harbors and Coastal Areas

Management Using Comparative Risk Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

By: Igor Linkov (Editor), Gregory A. Kiker (Editor), Richard J. Wenning (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 March 2007

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Human experience has shown how great cities, nations, and empires have either collapsed or retired from their predominant stature when natural resources are depleted to an extent that exceeds the ability of the environment to restore or replenish their supply. This book explores the challenges facing coastal areas during the next few decades and the difficult decisions needed to prevent a repeat of the past. Establishing, maintaining or enhancing a sense of environmental security in different coastal regions and improving the management of critical infrastructure will require (i) matching human demands with available environmental resources; (ii) recognition of environmental security threats and infrastructure vulnerabilities; and, (iii) identification of the range of available options for preventing and/or minimizing natural disasters, technological failures, and/or terror actions. This book emphasizes beliefs that the convergence of seemingly disparate viewpoints and often uncertain and limited information is possible only by using one or more available risk assessment methodologies and decision-making tools such as multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA).

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Environmental security, critical infrastructure and risk assessment : definitions and current trends	p. 3
Environmental security : approaches and tools	p. 19
Integrating comparative risk assessment and multi-criteria decision analysis : working through wicked problems and their impossible solutions	p. 37
Environmental security in harbors and coastal areas : management using comparative risk assessment and multi-criteria decision analysis framework	p. 53
Environmental security and environmental regulations in Israel	p. 81
Managing sediment risk at the basin scale : European frameworks in support of complex decisions	p. 85
Multicriteria decision analysis and strategic uncertainties	p. 97
Ranking of available countermeasures using MCDA applied to contaminated environment	p. 111
Engaging the general public and other stakeholder groups	p. 121
Risk and decision methods applied to aquatic ecosystem management : considerations for invasive and endangered species	p. 127
Stakeholder preference elicitation	p. 149
Multiobjective risk/cost analysis of artificial Marine systems using decision trees and fuzzy expert estimations	p. 161
The Bouchard-120 and chalk point spill responses : objectives and performance metrics	p. 175
Comparative assessment of several multi-criteria decision analysis tools for management of contaminated sediments	p. 195
SMAA-TRI : a parameter stability analysis method for ELECTRE TRI	p. 217
Treating uncertain criteria and stakeholder preference information in environmental multi-criteria decision problems	p. 233
Fuzzy vs. Probabilistic methods for risk assessment of coastal areas	p. 251
Decision support systems for the management of contaminated sites : a multi-criteria approach	p. 267
Visualization of pareto frontier in environmental decision making	p. 275
Spatially-explicit population models with complex decisions : fish, cattle, and decision analysis	p. 293
Risk assessment in detection and prevention of terrorist attacks in harbors and coastal areas	p. 309
Complex health risk assessment and analysis from exposure to ionizing radiation, chemical contaminants and other sources of harm	p. 317
Role of risk assessment in environmental security planning and decision-making	p. 329
Humic substances as a natural factor lowering ecological risk in estuaries	p. 343
Risk assessment applications in Croatia	p. 355
Risk assessment of the effect of wastewater treatment and desalination processes on the coastal aquifer in Israel : using multi-criteria decision analysis	p. 369
Evaluation of drinking groundwater for the rural areas adjacent to the nearby desert of Giza governorate of Greater Cairo, Egypt	p. 379
Impact of Lithuanian sea harbors on environmental stability and local ecosystems	p. 395
The Caspian sea region : environmental security and risk assessment applications in oil and gas development projects	p. 409
Investigation of discharge of fresh water in the Canakkale Strait (Dardanelles -Turkey)	p. 421
The South Mediterranean coastal sustainable development project : environmental and human development risk	p. 429
Lake Sevan in Armenia : socioeconomic analysis for secure development policies	p. 439
Multi-criteria decision analysis and the tar creek superfund site : initial findings	p. 451
Unmanned sea vehicles for harbor patrolling : low-cost solutions to enhance coastal security	p. 465
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