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Sustainable natural resource management for scientists and engineers / Daniel R. Lynch

Author
Lynch, Daniel R.
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 230 pages)
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Contents
1. Sterile Resources -- 1.1. Costless Production of a Sterile Resource -- 1.2. Decision Rules -- 1.3. Discovery -- 1.4. Some Unclosed Issues -- 1.5. Recap -- 1.6. Programs -- 1.7. Problems -- 2. Biomass -- 2.1. Growth and Harvesting -- 2.2. Economic Decision Rules -- 2.3. Effort Dynamics -- 2.4. Intertemporal Decisions: The Influence of r -- 2.5. Technology -- 2.6. Recap -- 2.7. Programs -- 2.8. Problems -- 3. Stage-Structured Populations -- 3.1. Population Structure -- 3.3. Dynamics: Exogenous R -- 3.4. The Fish Farm -- 3.5. N Stages -- 3.6. Recap -- 3.7. Programs -- 3.8. Problems -- 4. The Cohort -- 4.1. Single Cohort Development -- 4.2. Example -- 4.3. Economic Harvesting -- 4.4. Uncontrolled Recruitment -- 4.5. A Cohort of Individuals -- 4.6. Recap -- 4.7. Programs -- 4.8. Problems -- 5. Water -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Water as a Productive Resource -- 5.3. Example: The Wentworth Basin -- 5.4. Integers -- 5.5. Goals -- 5.6. Dynamics. and 5.7. Case Study: The Wheelock/Kemeny Basin -- 5.8. Recap -- 5.9. Programs -- 5.10. Problems -- 6. Pollution -- 6.1. Basic Processes -- 6.2. Case Study: Carbon -- 6.3. Aeration -- 6.4. Multiple Loading -- 6.5. Recap -- 6.6. Programs -- 6.7. Problems -- Appendix. Generating Random Numbers.
Summary
Natural resources support all human productivity. The sustainable management of natural resources is among the preeminent problems of the current century. Sustainability and the implied professional responsibility start here. This book uses applied mathematics familiar to undergraduate engineers and scientists to examine natural resource management and its role in framing sustainability. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are covered, along with living and sterile resources. Examples and applications are drawn from petroleum, fisheries, and water resources. Each chapter contains problems illustrating the material. Simple programs in commonly available packages (Excel, MATLAB) support the text. The material is a natural prelude to more advanced study in ecology, conservation, and population dynamics, as well as engineering and science. The mathematical description is kept within what an undergraduate student in the sciences or engineering would normally be expected to master for natural systems. The purpose is to allow students to confront natural resource problems early in their preparation.
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9780511816222 (electronic bk.)
0511816227 (electronic bk.)
9780511505201 (ebook)
0511505205 (ebook)
9781139129787 (electronic bk.)
1139129783 (electronic bk.)
9780521899727 (hbk.)
0521899729 (hbk.)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-223) and index.
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