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The discipline of Operational Research (OR) is primarily concerned with improving the effectiveness and efficiency of decision processes. These processes take place everywhere in society: industry, banking, agriculture, government, politics. Frequent use of mathematical optimization models is typical of OR. Since the early '80s these models are increasingly packaged in a “user-friendly” way, as “Decision Support Systems”. In the following we will illustrate how OR can be used to describe and solve a number of environmental problems.
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Van Beek, P., Fortuin, L. & Van Wassenhove, L.N. Operational Research and the environment. Environmental and Resource Economics 2, 635–639 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00330288
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00330288