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. AndrA(c)s 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 selectedco-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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