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The term “environment” is a generic one which may denote a wide variety of complex systems and subsystems. When the chief concern is assessing the impact of pollutants in the environment, one is typically concerned with a system comprised of sources (natural and anthropogenic), transport/translocation mechanisms, and sinks. The analysis of such a system, virtually by definition, involves “systems analysis”. In order to analyze a system, one must first characterize it in terms of relationships between component parts, i.e. system logic. In this process one typically evolves a set of parameters which, to some degree of approximation, describes in a quantitative way component interactions. The credibility of an analysis is thus heavily dependent upon the accuracy with which the parameters are evaluated. Of particular concern are (a) the sensitivity of a system to parameter variations (sensitivity analysis), and (b) measures of estimates of parameter variabilities. The combining of (a) and (b) will be termed uncertainty analysis in the following discussion.
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Yost, K.J. (1986). Stochastic Methods for Intermedia Transport Analysis. In: Cohen, Y. (eds) Pollutants in a Multimedia Environment. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2243-6_8
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