Improving Natural Resource Management: Ecological and Political Models Hardcover - 2011 - 1st Edition
by Timothy C. Haas
From the rear cover
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 variables that describe the ecosystem. The parameters of this fitted model are perturbed just enough to cause human behaviour to change so that desired ecosystem states occur. This perturbed model gives the ecosystem management plan needed to reach desired ecosystem states. To construct such a set of interacting models, topics from political science, ecology, probability, and statistics are developed and explored.
Key features:
- Explores politically feasible ways to manage at-risk ecosystems.
- Gives agent-based models of how social groups affect ecosystems through time.
- Demonstrates how to fit models of population dynamics to mixtures of wildlife data.
- Presents statistical methods for fitting models of group behaviour to political action data.
- Supported by an accompanying website featuring datasets and JAVA code.
This book will be useful to managers and analysts working in organizations charged with finding practical ways to sustain biodiversity or the physical environment. Furthermore this book also provides a political roadmap to help lawmakers and administrators improve institutional environmental management decision making.
Details
- Title Improving Natural Resource Management: Ecological and Political Models
- Author Timothy C. Haas
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley
- Date 2011-03
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780470661130 / 0470661135
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Ecosystem management, Wildlife monitoring
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010040965
- Dewey Decimal Code 333.951
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 06/01/2011, Page 223
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