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General tasks
Students will learn a disciplined, structured approach to rational decision-making without and with uncertainty
Specific tasks
- Knowledge and understanding
After the course, students will be able to
--- account for fundamental aspects of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty (DMUU)
--- apply basic principles of MCDA and DMUU in different cases
--- describe the multi-dimensional and uncertain nature of environmental issues
- Applying knowledge and understanding
Students, after this course, will learn a disciplined, structured approach to rational decision-making where environmental projects are judged according to appropriate sustainability criteria
- Making judgements
After the course, students will learn to assess criteria on a qualitative and/or quantitative basis and to perform a comparative evaluation of potential competing projects
- Communication skills
By the end of the module, students should be able to understand and explain the basic concepts of multi-criteria optimization, to formulate real-world problems from management and environmental economics as multi-criteria optimization problems, to discuss different solution concepts, their advantages and their limitations in practice, to apply and justify several solution methods for multi-criteria optimization problems and discuss their drawbacks and their advantages
- Learning skills
The contents of the course are provided through various teaching methods. They are aimed not only at developing the ability of understanding and applying knowledge, with independent judgment and adequate communication skills, but also at increasing the knowledge on contents similar to the those of teaching