Improving natural resource management : ecological and political models / Timothy C. Haas.

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...

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Main Author: Haas, Timothy C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2011.
Series:Statistics in practice.
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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 ...
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.