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had a spirit of international cooperation. As a result, whenever one center developed an idea that resulted in a major improveme ...
Daly HE, Herman E (1977). Steady-State Economics: The Economics of Biophysical Equilibrium and Moral Growth. W. H. Freeman, San ...
Apendix 3: Measuring, Monitoring, and Forecasting Progress toward Sustainability Authors: Noel Cressie (The Ohio State Universit ...
consider how the data should be collected, with consideration of statistical design and other data collection issues. Finally, w ...
Many of these issues were discussed in a recent workshop on “Datasets for the 21 st Century” held at the United Kingdom Meteorol ...
The aforementioned issues have been extensively analyzed by meteorologists and climate scientists using increasingly sophisticat ...
taken at a particular instant of time and at a particular location. This information should be recorded as it can be used for po ...
range of the data and facilitates greater insight into the underlying mechanisms producing the observed patterns. Another issue ...
3.1 Uncertainty quantification The topic of uncertainty quantification arises whenever complex, process-based models⎯which often ...
point estimates of future quantities (e.g., amounts of available resources) will be insufficient for evaluating progress towards ...
acquisition of both ground and remotely sensed data. For example, for satellite imagery, the plot should be of sufficient size t ...
providing information necessary for building and assessing quantitative models that may be used for forecasting in the context o ...
(CBI, 2007). Contribution layers include timber supply based on forest inventory sample plot observations (FIA, 2007), water buf ...
3.5. Model diagnostics Good model diagnostics are essential for model building. Essentially one is looking at whether properties ...
needs to be developed to address model selection in this and other more complex models. 3.7 Dynamic spatio-temporal models In th ...
integration of these models with diverse datasets that can be aligned to spatial and temporal dimensions of the process model ou ...
To ensure the success of this program of research, a number of resources will need to be in place. Support is needed for interdi ...
We need to develop the mathematical and statistical methods and theory so that in 2020 we can determine whether we have made sig ...
Historical perspective and announcement of statistical documentation. Journal of Forestry, 103 : 304-308. Menne MJ, Williams Jr ...
Appendix 4: Managing Human-Environment Systems for Sustainability Authors Colin Clark (University of British Columbia) Jonathan ...
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