Comparative Risk Assessment and Environmental-Plant sciencesal Decision Making

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Decision making in Environmental-Plant sciencesal projects is typically a complex and confusing process characterized by trade-offs between socio-political, Environmental-Plant sciencesal, and economic impacts. Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) is a methodology applied to facilitate decision making when various activities compete for limited resources. CRA has become an increasingly accepted research tool and has helped to characterize Environmental-Plant sciencesal profiles and priorities on the regional and national level. CRA may be considered as part of the more general but as yet quite academic field of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). Considerable research in the area of MCDA has made available methods for applying scientific decision theoretical approaches to multi-criteria problems, but its applications, especially in Environmental-Plant sciencesal areas, are still limited. The papers show that the use of comparative risk assessment can provide the scientific basis for Environmental-Plant sciencesally sound and cost-efficient policies, strategies, and solutions to our Environmental-Plant sciencesal challenges.