Can fuzzy LOGIC bring complex environmental problems into focus?

Abstract

In real life, few actions are simply "good" or "bad". Decisions flowing from environmental policies and risk assessments are no exception. Thomas E. McKone, with the University of California, Berkeley, and Ashok W. Deshpande, formerly with the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute of India, discuss how fuzzy logic and arithmetic can be used to better communicate environmental risks to the general public.