Mathematical Modelling for Sustainable Development

• Main Author: Hersh, Marion (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Environmental Engineering,
• Subjects: Probabilities.; Environmental sciences.; Pollution prevention.; Economics.; Management science.; Economic theory.; Environmental economics.; Economics, general.; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science.; Industrial Pollution Prevention.; Environmental Economics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

Many people are convinced that Sustainable Development and Mathematics are completely unrelated. Sustainable Development, in its role of a value laden imperative for polluting and over-consuming societies, seems to be totally unconnected to mathematical reasoning and ignorant of the values behind it...