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CHALLENGES FOR SUSTAINABILITY MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL ...

Mathematical and Statistical Challenges for Sustainability Report of a Workshop held November 15-17, 2010 by Julie Rehmeyer Edit ...

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The six North American mathematical sciences research institute sponsors of the Workshop on Mathematical Challenges for Sustaina ...

Acknowledgements The editors wish to express their sincere appreciation to Julie Rehmeyer, the Science Writer for this project. ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary Chapter 1... Human Well-being and the Natural Environment Chapter 2 ... Human-Environmental ...

Mathematical and Statistical Challenges for Sustainability Executive Summary Learning to live sustainably on Earth is going to r ...

provide only a crude and imprecise approximation of the true processes affecting climate. They are raising mathematical and stat ...

mathematical task we can’t yet do very well. The problem is exacerbated by the possibility that climate change could cause our f ...

the mathematical methods that we need to do this effectively along with some of the challenges we face. For example, we need to ...

of human activity to energy. Oil is becoming depleted. Greenhouse gases resulting from the use of fossil fuels appear to be affe ...

nor does it claim that mathematical scientists will be able to solve them alone – they will need involvement with new communitie ...

CHAPTER 1 Human Well-being and the Natural Environment Humans depend on the resources of the natural environment. This chapter l ...

Figure 1: Though a hurricane in New York City is not especially probable, the results could be catastrophic. A storm surge could ...

other disciplines. This is true of many questions in sustainability science. In the case of the hurricane, for example, there ar ...

affect the robustness of the natural environments that we depend on, in some ways that we understand and many that we don’t full ...

relationships between the species that creates robustness. So, mathematical scientists have developed measures that account for ...

has led to lower numbers of opossums (which are poor hosts for the pathogen that causes Lyme disease) and higher numbers of whit ...

Figure 3: Currently, about 1,200 malaria cases are reported each year in the United States, almost all in people who were infect ...

movement of any pathogens they carry, but they’ve only recently been used in this context. Current models often make simplifying ...