TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haas, Timothy C.
TI  - Improving natural resource management : ecological and political models
T2  - Statistics in practice
SN  - 9780470979
AV  - QH75 .H29 2011
U1  - 333.95/16 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex
PB  - Wiley
KW  - Ecosystem management
KW  - Simulation methods
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Monitoring
KW  - Wildlife monitoring
KW  - Science
KW  - Environmental Studies
KW  - Natural history
KW  - NATURE
KW  - Animals
KW  - Wildlife
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - Biological Diversity
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index; 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470979334
ER  -