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Sustainable Management of Natural Resources - Mathematical Models and Methods (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
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Sustainable Management of Natural Resources - Mathematical Models and Methods (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
Series: Environmental Science
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Nowadays, environmental issues including air and water pollution,
climate change, overexploitation of marine ecosystems, exhaustion
of fossil resources, conservation of biodiversity are receiving
major attention from the public, stakeholders and scholars from the
local to the planetary scales. It is now clearly recognized that
human activities yield major ecological and envir- mental stresses
with irreversible loss of species, destruction of habitat or c-
matecatastrophesasthemostdramaticexamplesoftheire?ects.Infact,
these anthropogenic activities impact not only the states and
dynamics of natural resources and ecosystems but also alter human
health, well-being, welfare and economic wealth since these
resources are support features for human life. The numerous outputs
furnished by nature include direct goods such as food, drugs,
energy along with indirect services such as the carbon cycle, the
water cycle and pollination, to cite but a few. Hence, the various
ecological changes our world is undergoing draw into question our
ability to sustain economic production, wealth and the evolution of
technology by taking natural systems into account. The concept of
"sustainable development" covers such concerns, although no
universal consensus exists about this notion. Sustainable
development - phasizes the need to organize and control the
dynamics and the complex - teractions between man, production
activities, and natural resources in order to promote their
coexistence and their common evolution. It points out the
importance of studying the interfaces between society and nature,
and es-
ciallythecouplingbetweeneconomicsandecology.Itinducesinterdisciplinary
scienti?c research for the assessment, the conservation and the
management of natural resources.
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