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1 online resource (xx, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps. 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 ... Managing a political-ecological system. Introduction -- Simulator architecture, operation, and example output -- Blue whale population management -- Finding the most practical ecosystem management plan -- An open-web-based ecosystem management tool -- Model formulation, estimation, and reliability. Influence diagrams of political decision making -- Group IDs for the East African cheetah EMT -- Modeling wildlife population dynamics with an influence diagram -- Political action taxonomies, collection protocols, and an actions history example -- Ecosystem data -- Statistical fitting of the political-ecological system simulator -- Assessing the simulator's reliability and improving its construct validity -- Assessment. Current capabilities and limitations of the politically realistic EMT -- Appendices. Appendix A. Heuristics used to assign hypothesis values to parameters -- Appendix B. Cluster computing version of Hooke and Jeeves search. Timothy C. Haas. Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index. Ecosystem management Ecosystem management Simulation methods Ecosystem management Political aspects Ecosystem management Monitoring Wildlife monitoring Science Environmental Studies Natural history NATURE Animals Wildlife SCIENCE Life Sciences Biological Diversity QH75 .H29 2011 333.95/16 Haas, Timothy C. Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2011 (DLC) 2010040965 (OCoLC)671491666 9780470979341 0470979348 10.1002/9780470979334 Wiley InterScience http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470979334 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470979334 DG1 110304 20171119105611.0 ocn705353429 eng