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Improving Natural Resource Management
Timothy C. Haas
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Description for Improving Natural Resource Management
Supported by a website featuring computer code, data used in the book, and tutorials and solutions, Improving Natural Resource Management demonstrates how to find the most politically acceptable but effective plan for managing an at-risk ecosystem. Series: Statistics in Practice. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PBWH; RNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 528.
The decision to implement environmental protection options is a political one. These, and other political and social decisions affect the balance of the ecosystem and how the point of equilibrium desired is to be reached. This book develops a stochastic, temporal model of how political processes influence and are influenced by ecosystem processes and looks at how to find the most politically feasible plan for managing an at-risk ecosystem. Finding such a plan is accomplished by first fitting a mechanistic political and ecological model to a data set composed of observations on both political actions that impact an ecosystem and ... Read more
The decision to implement environmental protection options is a political one. These, and other political and social decisions affect the balance of the ecosystem and how the point of equilibrium desired is to be reached. This book develops a stochastic, temporal model of how political processes influence and are influenced by ecosystem processes and looks at how to find the most politically feasible plan for managing an at-risk ecosystem. Finding such a plan is accomplished by first fitting a mechanistic political and ecological model to a data set composed of observations on both political actions that impact an ecosystem and ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Statistics in Practice
Number of Pages
272
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780470661130
SKU
V9780470661130
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99-15
About Timothy C. Haas
Timothy C. Haas, Lubar School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Timothy Haas is involved in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in statistical methods, pursuing decision making and environmental statistics research, and collaborating with faculty on application of statistics to Marketing and Economics.
Reviews for Improving Natural Resource Management
"This said, I acknowledge that the goal that stands behind this book was very challenging and that the EMT model can represent a good starting point." (Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2011)