User's Manual for the Evaluation and Sensitivity Analysis Program (ESAP).

Abstract

The Evaluation and Sensitivity Analysis Program (ESAP) is an environmental planning technique for the evaluation of alternative water resource management plans. ESAP is based on a weighting-scaling approach to impact assessment and alternative evaluation. The evaluation of the desirability or acceptability of an alternative is based on a systematic combination of information about the impacts on the natural and cultural resources and information about the impacts on the natural and cultural resources and information about the importance (weight) and preferred levels of such resources. Information for a number of individuals or groups is used to determine how sensitive their evaluations are to differences in judgments about the importance and preferred levels of resources or to uncertainty in projections of resource impacts.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA099307

Entities

People

  • Jeryl Mumpower
  • Lee Bollacker

Organizations

  • University of Colorado Boulder

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acceptability
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Carriages
  • Chemical Properties
  • Classification
  • Colorado
  • Contracts
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Judgment
  • Psychology
  • Ratings
  • Specifications
  • Standards
  • Uncertainty
  • Water Quality
  • Water Resources

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

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