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Methods for estimation of parameters to use in our models. Sampling designs for monitoring and measuring quantities relevant to ...
CHAPTER 4 Managing Human-Environmental Systems for Sustainability To be useful, sustainability science needs to guide decision-m ...
theorists call the “Prisoner’s Dilemma”: Even though both the U.S. and Canada were better off cooperating, without an agreement ...
Five years after the agreement broke down, both the U.S. and Canada were near disaster. As the Canadians fished frantically in a ...
designed carefully, these can give fishers a long-term stake in the health of the fishery. Figure 12: When fishing managers trie ...
met is to build models of the “spatial dynamics” that will reveal the patterns of variability over time. Another technique manag ...
ponderosas slowly fill in and displace the aspens. By characterizing this process mathematically, it’s fairly straightforward to ...
A third mathematical challenge for forests is to understand how many species can be removed before the functioning of the forest ...
Some of the overarching mathematical sciences challenges in the area of managing human-environmental systems for sustainability ...
Because natural systems are always complex dynamical systems, understanding them and predicting them is difficult. Management ...
CHAPTER 5 Mathematical Challenges in Energy Sustainability Chapter 5 examines Energy as an in-depth case study that touches on t ...
algorithms to balance all these needs makes for a massive mathematical challenge. The mathematical problem of planning the opera ...
us and for the developing world. Doing so is going to require many new developments in the mathematical sciences. The power grid ...
it can not be managed by human intelligence alone; we have to have good models to guide decision-making. Improved models can als ...
Figure 16: A new alloy in the midst of changing phase. The blue needle is the martensite phase, which is growing into the orange ...
Figure 17: Mathematics is essential to designing electrolyte membranes that lie at the heart of fuel cells. The green areas of t ...
the most promising technologies to invest in heavily than if we spread the money around evenly. The basic assumption of current ...
The fundamental problem was that European officials implemented their system blindly, with little mathematical analysis to guide ...
and conversion often requires solving inverse problems for partial differential equations and stochastic partial differential eq ...
CONCLUSION The mathematical statistical sciences have a leading part to play in rising to the challenge of learning to live sust ...
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