Handbook of Operations Research in Natural Resources by Andres Weintraub (Englis

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Handbook of Operations Research in Natural Resources will be the first systematic handbook treatment of quantitative modeling natural resource problems, their allocated efficient use, and societal and economic impact.

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Handbook of Operations Research in Natural Resources will be the first systematic handbook treatment of quantitative modeling natural resource problems, their allocated efficient use, and societal and economic impact. Andrés Weintraub is the very top person in Natural Resource research. Moreover, he has an international reputation in OR and a former president of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). He has selected co-editors who are at the top of the sub-fields in natural resources: agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and mining. The book will cover these areas in terms with contributions from researchers on modeling natural research problems, quantifying data, developing algorithms, and discussing the benefits of research implementations. The handbook will include tutorial contributions when necessary. Throughout the book, technological advances and algorithmic developments that have been driven by natural resource problems will be called out and discussed.

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Natural resources has been an application in numerous Operations Research papers; however, there have been few, if any, books that organizes and discusses the OR models in this areaFirst systematic handbook treatment of quantitative models applied to natural resource problems - a handbook that will fill a state of the art need in the international fields of natural resources and environmental engineering

Author Biography

Andrés Weintraub is the very top person in Natural Resource research. Moreover, he has an international reputation in OR and a former president of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS).

Table of Contents

Agriculture.- Importance of Whole-Farm Risk Management in Agriculture.- Dealing with Multiple Objectives in Agriculture.- Modeling Multifunctional Agroforestry Systems with Environmental Values: Dehesa in Spain and Woodland Ranches in California.- Environmental Criteria in Pig Diet Formulation with Multi-Objective Fractional Programming.- Modeling the Interactions Between Agriculture and the Environment.- MCDM Farm System Analysis for Public Management of Irrigated Agriculture.- Water Public Agencies Agreeing to A Covenant for Water Transfers: How to Arbitrate Price–Quantity Clauses.- Positive Mathematical Programming for Agricultural and Environmental Policy Analysis: Review and Practice.- Fisheries.- Fisheries Management.- Shared Fish Stocks and High Seas Issues.- Game Theoretic Applications to Fisheries.- Uncertainty in Bioeconomic Modelling.- Planning in Fisheries-Related Systems.- Capacity and Technical Efficiency Estimation in Fisheries: Parametric and Non-Parametric Techniques.- Studies in the Demand Structure for Fish and Seafood Products.- Forestry.- Models for Strategic Forest Management.- Tactical-Level Forest Management Models.- Harvest Operational Models in Forestry.- Log Merchandizing Model Used in Mechanical Harvesting.- Forest Transportation.- Optimization of Forest Wildlife Objectives.- Spatial Environmental Concerns.- Heuristics in Forest Planning.- Forestry Economics: Historical Background and Current Issues.- Multiple Criteria Decision-Making in Forest Planning: Recent Results and Current Challenges.- Forest Fire Management.- A Model for the Space–Time Spread of Pine Shoot Moth.- Adaptive Optimization of Forest Management in A Stochastic World.- Mining.- Application of Optimisation Techniques in Open Pit Mining.- Optimisation in UndergroundMining.- Long- and Short-Term Production Scheduling at Lkab's Kiruna Mine.- An Integrated Approach to the Long-Term Planning Process in the Copper Mining Industry.

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Operations Research Management Science approaches have helped people for the last 40 years to understand the complex functioning of the systems based upon natural resources, as well as to manage natural resources in the most efficient manner. The areas usually viewed within the natural resources field are: agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and mining and water resources. All of these areas share the common problem of optimally allocating scarcity over a period of time. The scale of time or length of the planning horizon differs from one area to another. We have almost a continuous renewal in the case of the fisheries, periodic cycles in the case of agriculture and forestry and enormous periods of time much beyond the human perception in the case of mining resources. But in all the cases, the critical issue is to obtain an efficient use of the resource along its planned time horizon. Another element of connection among the different natural resources is due to the interaction between the use of the resource and the environmental impact caused by its extraction or harvest. This type of interaction implies additional complexities in the underlying decision-making process, making the use of OR/MS tools especially relevant. HANDBOOK OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH IN NATURAL RESOURCES will be the first systematic handbook treatment of quantitative modeling natural resource problems, their allocated efficient use, and societal and economic impact. Andr

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Natural resources has been an application in numerous Operations Research papers; however, there have been few, if any, books that organizes and discusses the OR models in this area First systematic handbook treatment of quantitative models applied to natural resource problems - a handbook that will fill a state of the art need in the international fields of natural resources and environmental engineering

Details ISBN1441944168 Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Series International Series in Operations Research & Management Science Year 2010 ISBN-10 1441944168 ISBN-13 9781441944160 Format Paperback Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Place of Publication New York, NY Country of Publication United States DEWEY 330 Edition 1st Short Title HANDBK OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH Language English Media Book Series Number 99 Pages 624 Publication Date 2010-11-29 AU Release Date 2010-11-29 NZ Release Date 2010-11-29 US Release Date 2010-11-29 UK Release Date 2010-11-29 Edited by Trond Bjørndal Author Rafael Epstein Edition Description Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007 Alternative 9780387718149 Audience Professional & Vocational Illustrations 65 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 624 p. 65 illus. We've got this

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