Overview
- Broadens your understanding of modelling approaches to understand various environmental systems
- Explains how to test and practice sustainability combining different tools from models, case studies and scenarios
- Readable authoritative entries from experts in this multi-disciplinary volume
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About this book
This edited volume focuses on how we can protect our environment and enhance environmental sustainability when faced with changes and pressures imposed by our expansive needs. The volume unites multiple subject areas within sustainability, enabling the techniques and philosophy in the chapters to be applied to research areas in environmental science, plant sciences, energy, biodiversity and conservation. The chapters from expert contributors cover topics such as mathematical modelling tools used to monitor diversity of plant species, and the stability of ecosystem services such as biogeochemical cycling. Empirical research presented here also brings together mathematical developments in the important fields of robotics including kinematics, dynamics, path planning, control, vision, and swarmanoids.
Through this book readers will also discover about rainfall-runoff modelling which will give them a better idea of the effectsof climate change on the sustainability of water resources at the watershed scale. Modelling approaches will also be examined that maximize readers insights into the global problem of energy transition, i.e. the switch to an energy production system using renewable resources only. Collective and discrete insights are made to assist with synergy which should progress well beyond this book. Insight is also given to assist policy formations, development and implementations. The book has a strong multi-disciplinary nature at its core, and will appeal to both generalist readers and specialists in information technology, mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry and environmental sciences.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
James N. Furze is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Environment and Technology at the University of the West of England.
Kelly Swing is a Professor of Environmental Science at the University of San Francisco de Quito and Director of the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Quito, Ecuador.
Anil K. Gupta is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India. He is the Coordinator of the Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI), Founder of the Honey Bee Network and Executive Vice Chair, National Innovation Foundation based in India.
Richard H. McClatchey is a Professor and Research Center Director at the Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems, University of the West of England, UK.
Darren M. Reynolds is a Professor of Health and Environment in the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences at the University of the West of England, UK.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematical Advances Towards Sustainable Environmental Systems
Editors: James N. Furze, Kelly Swing, Anil K. Gupta, Richard H. McClatchey, Darren M. Reynolds
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43901-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43900-6Published: 16 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82938-8Published: 29 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43901-3Published: 11 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 347
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations, 52 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Simulation and Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Resources, Environmental Management, Nature Conservation