Description
Summary: | 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 ...
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780470979341 0470979348 1283373998 9781283373999 9786613373991 6613373990 |
Language: | English. |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |