Mathematical Modelling for Sustainable Development - Hersh, Marion; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006)
Sustainable Development: An Overview -- Holistic Approaches and Systems Methodologies -- to Systems Ideas -- Engineering Mathematics Representations -- State Space System Representations -- Mental Models, Sense Making and Risk -- Systems Methodologies -- Case Study: Reduction of Domestic Waste -- Decision Making and Multi-Criteria Optimisation -- Optimisation -- Mathematical Background to Decision Making -- Multi-Criteria Problems -- Multi-Criteria Decision Support Methods -- Case Study: Waste Management Options -- Fuzzy Systems -- to Fuzzy Sets -- Fuzzy Set Operations -- Augmented, Intuitionistic & Type 2 Fuzzy Sets -- Augmented Fuzzy Set Ordering Algorithm and Third Order Augmented Fuzzy Sets -- Case Study: Transport Decision Making -- Looking Back and Moving Forward.
Keywords: Economics; Management science; Environmental sciences; Pollution prevention; Environmental economics; Probabilities; Economic theory; Economics, general; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science; Industrial Pollution Prevention; Environmental Economics; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods