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which hasn’t yet been undertaken at all – is valuable both for the specific predictions they make and for the deepened understan ...
(both spatial and temporal) of extreme or gradual events. To prepare for rare extreme events, classical problems in operations ...
CHAPTER 2 Human-Environmental Systems as Complex Adaptive Systems Interactions between humans and the environment are both extra ...
melts in response to rising temperatures or how temperatures rise in response to melting sea ice: You also have to understand ho ...
One of the most fundamental discoveries that has come out of the study of complex adaptive systems is a rather appalling one: Th ...
allowed the two to influence one another, they couldn’t capture this critical phenomenon. Nevertheless, climate modelers have on ...
the range of uncertainty? Or how can we remove the rapid oscillations and variations that come from meteorology to concentrate o ...
Figure 6: Human-nature interactions can be complex and surprising. As parks in Africa protect ecosystems and the animals that th ...
captured by a single number. In reality, of course, cloud reflectiveness varies, but some reasonable estimate has to be given. F ...
describing the same system have been built, an average of the output of the different models can be better than any single predi ...
Some of the major mathematical sciences challenges in the area of human-environment systems as complex adaptive systems are: Ne ...
environmental change; for example, a politician is usually in office for only a few years, while the effects of his or her decis ...
CHAPTER 3 Measuring and Monitoring Progress Toward Sustainability To learn to live sustainably, we’ve got to know how well we’re ...
at evenly spaced points of a tidy grid extending across oceans and up into the atmosphere. Weather stations are rare in the midd ...
degree. Indeed, these forecasts are usually more accurate than the information inferred for a given location from scattered weat ...
predictions and measurements create data could benefit from data assimilation techniques, and so far, that potential has been li ...
example, many different government agencies and others collect data that is relevant to understanding the health of forests: The ...
twenty sites needed somehow to represent the entire continent ecologically, so their selection was critical. Figure 9: Ecology i ...
Their first step was to divide the U.S. into twenty ecologically homogeneous regions using methods based on firm scientific prin ...
healthy/unhealthy plants are challenging, particularly using messy real-world data. Thus, understanding how the health of indica ...
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