Improving natural resource management : ecological and political models /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Haas, Timothy C.
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2011.
• Σειρά: Statistics in practice.
• Θέματα: 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.

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 inf...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Managing a political-ecological system. Introduction
• Simulator architecture, operation, and example output
• Blue whale population management
• Finding the most practical ecosystem management plan
• An open-web-based ecosystem management tool
• Model formulation, estimation, and reliability. Influence diagrams of political decision making
• Group IDs for the East African cheetah EMT
• Modeling wildlife population dynamics with an influence diagram
• Political action taxonomies, collection protocols, and an actions history example
• Ecosystem data
• Statistical fitting of the political-ecological system simulator
• Assessing the simulator's reliability and improving its construct validity
• Assessment. Current capabilities and limitations of the politically realistic EMT
• Appendices. Appendix A. Heuristics used to assign hypothesis values to parameters
• Appendix B. Cluster computing version of Hooke and Jeeves search.