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Final report : analysis and evaluation for the research and demonstration project entitled Environmental Impact Assessment : a framework for local participation and decision making

Creator:: Pease, James R. (James Robert) and Smardon, Richard C.
Abstract:: The basic objectives of this project can be stated as follows: 1. To test a methodology for improving the quality of impact statement content; 2. To provide opportunity for local participation in project design and decision making; 3. To provide more efficient procedures for complying with impact statement laws, thereby...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: environmental considerations be brought into the decision-making process for any federal agency action or

Multiobjective decision making in industrial energy and environmental planning

Creator:: Kang, Hee Jung
Abstract:: Multiobjective Decision Making (MODM) has been suggested for the solution of complicated decision problems. Decision analysis in numerous areas, including industrial energy and environmental planning, necessarily requires consideration of multiple conflicting objectives. MODM has been successfully applied to a number of these problems of this type. Moreover, it has the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Multiobjective decision making in industrial energy and

Integrating sustainable manufacturing assessment into decision making for a production work cell

Creator:: Zhang, Hao
Abstract:: Sustainability has been the focus of intense discussions over the past two decades, with topics around the entire product life cycle. In the manufacturing phase, research has been focused solely on environmental impact assessment or environmental impact and cost analysis in its assessment of sustainability. However, few efforts have investigated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: decision making, where engineers are required to concurrently consider economic, environmental, and

Assisting decision making in component design for sustainable manufacturing

Creator:: Eastlick, Dane D.
Abstract:: Current life cycle assessment tools are often deficient in assisting design for sustainable manufacturing efforts. Integrating an improved assessment method into a decision support framework will provide a means for designers and engineers to better understand the impacts of their decisions. A unit process modeling-based sustainability assessment method is presented...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: design decision making by accounting for and quantifying economic, environmental, and social attributes

A study of strategic and tactical decision making procedures

Creator:: Elsner, Brian Jerome
Abstract:: An extensive literature survey investigated methods and approaches for evaluating intangible economic factors at the strategic and tactical levels of managerial decision making. These sources provided: 1) the background for a theoretical decision making algorithm developed for comparing alternative economic proposals for effectiveness at the strategy levels, and 2) a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: A study of strategic and tactical decision making

Entrepreneurs’ start-up versus persistence decisions: A critical evaluation of expectancy and value

Creator:: Holland, Daniel V. and Garrett, Robert P.
Abstract:: Research suggests that entrepreneurs tend to seek to maximize utility when considering whether to pursue a new venture opportunity. However, when choosing whether to persist with their current venture or not, utility maximization may not be of primary importance. Using a conjoint experiment, we examine the difference between policies in...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: offer novel insights into the entrepreneurial decision-making process. Keywords Entrepreneurship

Consideration of uncertainty in forest management decision-making

Creator:: Thompson, Emmett Frank
Abstract:: Management decisions are generally considered to be made under one of three categories of future knowledge: certainty, risk, or uncertainty. All three categories occur in forest management. However, forest management decisions whose outcomes are dependent upon future levels of timber yields, prices, utilization standards, or social and legal institutions are...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

An investigation of the influence of choice structure on decision making behavior

Creator:: Dervitsiotis, Kostas N.
Abstract:: The behavior of individuals in decision making under risk was investigated using choice structures of greater complexity than the types examined in previous studies. The experiment performed consisted of two phases. In Phase I a basic utility function for money was derived for each subject using lotteries with two equally...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: decision making behavior AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF KOSTAS NICOLAUS DERV TSIO TIS (Name) for the

Information and analysis techniques for making crop selection decisions

Creator:: Bristol, Roger Dale
Abstract:: Twenty managers of large diversified irrigated farms in the Willamette Valley area of Oregon were interviewed about the economic information and analysis techniques they use when making crop selection decisions. Two community college farm management instructors, two agricultural lenders, and two certified public accountants working with farmers were interviewed about...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: management decision process and by making recommendations on how portions of the theory can be

A sampling procedure to detect alternative actions in a decision model for choosing among apple harvesting systems

Creator:: Rudkin, Terry Harrold
Abstract:: Numerous analytical aids are available to apple producers to assist them in the decision problem of choosing among alternative apple harvesting systems. However, a majority of these techniques fail to recognize the effect of apple orchard yield variability on system performance and economic efficiency. Furthermore, many of the suggested procedures...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: procedures for decision making do not conscien- tiously apply economic principles to aserious degree. Thus

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Final report : analysis and evaluation for the research and demonstration project entitled Environmental Impact Assessment : a framework for local participation and decision making

Multiobjective decision making in industrial energy and environmental planning

Integrating sustainable manufacturing assessment into decision making for a production work cell

Assisting decision making in component design for sustainable manufacturing

A study of strategic and tactical decision making procedures

Entrepreneurs’ start-up versus persistence decisions: A critical evaluation of expectancy and value

Consideration of uncertainty in forest management decision-making

An investigation of the influence of choice structure on decision making behavior

Information and analysis techniques for making crop selection decisions

A sampling procedure to detect alternative actions in a decision model for choosing among apple harvesting systems

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