Sustainable natural resource management for scientists and engineers /

Natural resources support all human productivity. The sustainable management of natural resources is among the preeminent problems of the current century. Sustainability and the implied professional responsibility start here. This book uses applied mathematics familiar to undergraduate engineers and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lynch, Daniel R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Natural resources > Management > Mathematical models.
Natural resources > Environmental aspects > Management.
Ressources naturelles > Gestion > Modèles mathématiques.
Ressources naturelles > Aspect de l'environnement > Gestion.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
Natural resources > Management > Mathematical models
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Sterile Resources
  • 1.1. Costless Production of a Sterile Resource
  • 1.2. Decision Rules
  • 1.3. Discovery
  • 1.4. Some Unclosed Issues
  • 1.5. Recap
  • 1.6. Programs
  • 1.7. Problems
  • 2. Biomass
  • 2.1. Growth and Harvesting
  • 2.2. Economic Decision Rules
  • 2.3. Effort Dynamics
  • 2.4. Intertemporal Decisions: The Influence of r
  • 2.5. Technology
  • 2.6. Recap
  • 2.7. Programs
  • 2.8. Problems
  • 3. Stage-Structured Populations
  • 3.1. Population Structure
  • 3.3. Dynamics: Exogenous R
  • 3.4. The Fish Farm
  • 3.5. N Stages
  • 3.6. Recap
  • 3.7. Programs
  • 3.8. Problems
  • 4. The Cohort
  • 4.1. Single Cohort Development
  • 4.2. Example
  • 4.3. Economic Harvesting
  • 4.4. Uncontrolled Recruitment
  • 4.5. A Cohort of Individuals
  • 4.6. Recap
  • 4.7. Programs
  • 4.8. Problems
  • 5. Water
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Water as a Productive Resource
  • 5.3. Example: The Wentworth Basin
  • 5.4. Integers
  • 5.5. Goals
  • 5.6. Dynamics.
  • 5.7. Case Study: The Wheelock/Kemeny Basin
  • 5.8. Recap
  • 5.9. Programs
  • 5.10. Problems
  • 6. Pollution
  • 6.1. Basic Processes
  • 6.2. Case Study: Carbon
  • 6.3. Aeration
  • 6.4. Multiple Loading
  • 6.5. Recap
  • 6.6. Programs
  • 6.7. Problems
  • Appendix. Generating Random Numbers.

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