Sustainable management of natural resources: mathematical models and methods

Drawn from teachings given at several French interdisciplinary formations dealing with environmental economics, ecology and conservation biology, the book aims at reconciling economic and ecological dimensions through a common modeling framework to cope with these environmental management problems in a sustainability perspective. Thus particular attention is paid to multi-criteria issueand intergenerational equity. Regarding the interdisciplinary goal, in order to simplify the mathematical content, the proposed models and methods are restricted to the framework of discrete time dynamics. This allows for a direct entry into ecology for life-cycle, age classes and meta-population with patches.Similarly in economics, it favors a straightforward account of the framework of decision under uncertainty. In the same vein, particular attention has beenpaid to propose numerous examples, together with many figures and associated computer programs (written in Scilab, a ‘Matlab-like’ free scientific software). Mixes well-known material and applications with new insights especially from viability and robust analysis INDICE: From the contents Sequential Decision Models.- Equilibrium and Stability.- Viable Sequential Decisions.- Optimal Sequential Decisions.- Sequential Decisions under Uncertainty.- Robust and Stochastic Viability.- Robust and Stochastic Optimization.- Sequential Decision under Imperfect Information.- Appendix. Mathematical Proofs.- Index.

• ISBN: 978-3-540-79073-0
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 252
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés