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100			_aHaas, Timothy C. _eauthor. _9815811
245		0	_aImproving Natural Resource Management _b: Ecological and Political Models
260			_aWest Sessex : _bJohn Wiley, _c2011.
300			_axx, 250p.
490			_aStatistics in Practice
500			_aIncludes References 227-240p.and Index 241-250p.
520			_aThe 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 actions that impact an ecosystem and variables that describe the ecosystem. The parameters of this fitted model are perturbed just enough to cause human behaviour to change so that desired ecosystem states occur. This perturbed model gives the ecosystem management plan needed to reach desired ecosystem states. To construct such a set of interacting models, topics from political science, ecology, probability, and statistics are developed and explored.
650			_aBiology.
650			_aEcological and political models. _9815812
650			_aImproving natural resource management. _9815813
650			_aStatistics.
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