Adaptive Environmental Assessment and ManagementC. S. Holling Monograph on environmental evaluation and management - covers ecological systems, assessment of alternative environmental policies, role of communication, etc., and includes case studies for comparison in the USA, Austria and Venezuela. Bibliography pp. 357 to 363 and graphs. |
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Overview and Conclusions | 1 |
THE APPROACH | 23 |
The Nature and Behavior of Ecological Systems | 25 |
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actions adaptive adaptive management agricultural alternative policies Animal Resource approach arable land assumptions basic behavior benefits biological British Columbia Brunswick budworm densities calculations Caroni River catch Chapter complex components constraints core group costs decision maker described detailed dynamic dynamic programming ecological ecological systems economic ecosystem effects environmental assessment equilibrium erosion evaluation evapotranspiration example explore factors fish fisheries forest goal harvest HAZARD INDEX THRESHOLD Holling hydroelectric impact assessment important increase indicators insect insecticide interaction leaf area index management options manifold ment monitoring natural nomograms Obergurgl optimal outbreak parameters Peterman policy design population population density potential predation predictions problem production qualitative range region relationships resource salmon simulation model Skeena River soil spatial species strategies structure subroutines techniques tourist TREE AGE TREES ARE LOGGED uncertainty utility variables watershed WIIS workshop