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Bayesian networks in environmental and resource management

open access: yesIntegrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 2012
Abstract This overview article for the special series, “Bayesian Networks in Environmental and Resource Management,” reviews 7 case study articles with the aim to compare Bayesian network (BN) applications to different environmental and resource management problems from around the world.
Barton, David N.   +10 more
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Management of Environmental Resources and Environmental Policy

1992
We have in previous chapters argued that the basic problem in managing environmental resources is the problem of incentives. Environmental resources are often such that it is not in the best of interest of the individual to act in a way that is best for the society at large. The basic objective of environmental policy is therefore to create an economic
Jan Bojö   +2 more
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Renewable resource management with environmental prediction [PDF]

open access: possibleCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2001
Variations in environmental conditions affect renewable resource growth. The ability to predict such variations is improving, providing scope for improved management. We generalize a common stochastic stock recruitment model to explore how optimal management changes with environmental prediction. We obtain three main results. First, while it might seem
Christopher Costello   +2 more
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Managing information resources and environmental turbulence

Information Management & Computer Security, 1997
Using a sample of large industrial firms from two industries with differing external turbulence ‐ commercial banking and pharmaceutical ‐ hypothesizes that the need for a senior manager of information technology is essential in high‐turbulence industries (commercial banking).
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Environmental Human Resource Management

1998
Although human resource management is an area much less involved than most in environmental protection, it is here that long-term, significant preconditions are created for the effectiveness of environmental management in a company. This is true not only in terms of the qualification requirements set when selecting and promoting personnel, but also in ...
Ulrich Steger, Ralph Meima
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Resource and Environmental Management

2013
Preface 1. Change, complexity, uncertainty and conflict 2. Turbulence and planning 3. Looking to the future 4. Sustainability 5. Ecosystem approach 6. Learning organizations and adaptive management 7. Assessing alternatives 8. Partnerships and stakeholders 9. Local knowledge systems 10. Gender and development 11.
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Resource and Environmental Management

2019
Change. Complexity. Uncertainty, Conflict, Ambiguity. Intractability. Wicked problems. Ethics, Integrity. All these terms capture much of what resource and environmental managers must address in determining the most appropriate course of action relative to social-ecological systems.
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