Coping with Risk in Agriculture.

By: Hardaker, J.BContributor(s): Huirne, R.B.M | Anderson, J.R | Lien, GMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Wallingford : CABI, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (344 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780851999739Subject(s): Farm management -- Decision making | Farm management -- Risk assessmentGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Coping with Risk in AgricultureDDC classification: 630/.685 LOC classification: S561 -- .H2335 2004ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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