Improving natural resource management : ecological and political models / Timothy C. Haas. [electronic resource] Haas, Timothy C. Ecosystem management. Ecosystem management Simulation methods. Ecosystem management Political aspects. Ecosystem management Monitoring. Wildlife monitoring. QH75 .H29 2011 333.95/16 22 Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index. Print version record. 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 ... Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2011. 2011. 2011 Text 1 online resource (xx, 250 pages) : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470979334 eng Statistics in practice. Statistics in practice. Improving natural resource management. Improving natural resource management.