Sustainable Management of Natural Resources

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Michel De Lara, Luc Doyen

   Pages 1-13

3. Sequential decision models

   • Michel De Lara, Luc Doyen

   Pages 15-49

4. Equilibrium and stability

   • Michel De Lara, Luc Doyen

   Pages 51-71

5. Viable sequential decisions

   • Michel De Lara, Luc Doyen

   Pages 73-106

6. Optimal sequential decisions

   • Michel De Lara, Luc Doyen

   Pages 107-151

7. Sequential decisions under uncertainty

   • Michel De Lara, Luc Doyen

   Pages 153-169

8. Robust and stochastic viability

   • Michel De Lara, Luc Doyen

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9. Robust and stochastic optimization

   • Michel De Lara, Luc Doyen

   Pages 193-219

10. Sequential decision under imperfect information

    • Michel De Lara, Luc Doyen

    Pages 221-236

11. Back Matter

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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.

• Environmental Modelling
• Interdisciplinary Approach
• Mathematical Modelling
• Natural Resources
• Sustainable Development
• biodiversity
• pollution

• Universite Paris-Est, CERMICS, France

  Michel De Lara

• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CERSP, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France

  Luc Doyen

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