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Mathematical scientists, in partnerships with scientists in other disciplines, should develop mathematical theories of sustain ...
Appendices: Group White Papers Appendix 1: Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment Authors: Alejandro Adem (University of B ...
Human well-being requires, at the very minimum, an acceptable level of safe food, clean air and drinking water, safe shelter (ho ...
of diseases, with malaria a leading example. Five hundred million malaria cases occur every year and some scientists predict tha ...
Similar situations arise in the analysis of air quality. In both cases, water and air, there are questions related to irreversib ...
indicators of sustainable development relate to ‘green’ output and productivity measures in which the depreciation of natural ca ...
to improve how ensembles are created (experimental design), and to improve how information in climate model ensembles is combine ...
"negative learning" where the scientific belief and technical evidence turns out to be incorrect. There is perhaps a grand-chall ...
Similar evacuation problems arise during floods, hurricanes, and wildfires, though here evacuees are not necessarily limited to ...
dynamic networks, and methods from dynamic queuing theory and Markovian decision process analysis, which can be used to develop ...
potential contributions of mathematical modeling. Many of the challenges discussed apply more broadly to the study of human heal ...
events and health using national data sets; and then 2) predict the health impact of future climate change scenarios. Research C ...
depend on the length of time sampling is done, the intensity of the sampling procedure, and the size of the area sampled. See, f ...
that characterize a partial order on abundance vectors that reflects the combined effect of richness and evenness (Rousseau and ...
mathematical models of ocean food-limited fishery. A challenge is to incorporate the effects of global change and ocean acidific ...
how the sampling procedure affects the properties of the sequence of node degrees in a graph representing a physical, biological ...
A simple deterministic description of this system is given by an ordinary differential equation, where the rate of change of the ...
change of pH in the oceans requires sophisticated new ocean surveillance systems and concomitant methods of machine learning and ...
weather). Moreover, these systems operate under considerable uncertainty. Cascading failures can have dramatic consequences (Ami ...
for characterizing uncertainty in information created from the large volumes of data arising from the smart grid. We also need n ...
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