
Coping with Risk in Agriculture.
Title:
Coping with Risk in Agriculture.
Author:
Hardaker, J.B.
ISBN:
9780851999739
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (344 pages)
Contents:
Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Risk in Agriculture -- Chapter 2: Decision Analysis: Outline and Basic Assumptions -- Chapter 3: Measuring Uncertainty with Subjective Probablities -- Chapter 4: Making Better Probability Judgements -- Chapter 5: Attitudes to Risky Consequences -- Chapter 6: Integration Beliefs and Preferences for Decision Analysis -- Chapter 7: Decision Analysis with Preferences Unknown -- Chapter 8: Stochastic Simulation -- Chapter 9: Risk and Mathematical Programming Models -- Chapter 10: Decision Analysis with Multiple Objectives -- Chapter 11: Risky Decision Making and Time -- Chapter 12: Strategies Decision Makers Can Use to Manage Risk -- Chapter 13: Risk Considerations in Agricultural Policy Making -- References -- Appendix -- Index.
Abstract:
The new edition has a thorough treatment of stochastic simulation, including some novel yet simple methods for dealing to stochastic dependency between uncertain quantities. The treatment of policy aspects of risk in agriculture has been revised and extended. Author Hardaker from University of New England, NSW.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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