Improving natural resource management : ecological and political models /

• Main Author: Haas, Timothy C.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2011.
• Series: Statistics in practice.
• Subjects: Ecosystem management.; Ecosystem management > Simulation methods.; Ecosystem management > Political aspects.; Ecosystem management > Monitoring.; Wildlife monitoring.; Science.; Environmental Studies.; Natural history.; NATURE > Animals > Wildlife.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biological Diversity.; Electronic books.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index.
• ISBN: 9780470979341; 0470979348
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470979334

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 ...