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Renewable Resource Management

Proceedings of a Workshop on Control Theory Applied to Renewable Resource Management and Ecology Held in Christchurch, New Zealand January 7 – 11, 1980

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Thomas L. Vincent

    1. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

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  2. Janislaw M. Skowronski

    1. Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics (LNBM, volume 40)

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Mathematical Models and Resource Management

    • John Beddington, Daniel Botkin, Simon A. Levin
    Pages 1-5

  3. More Realistic Fishery Models: Cycles Collapse and Optimal Policy

    • Louis W. Botsford
    Pages 6-20

  4. Age-Structure and Stability in Multiple-Age Spawning Populations

    • Simon A. Levin
    Pages 21-45

  5. Optimal Management of Optimal Foragers

    • H. R. Pulliam
    Pages 46-53

  6. Modelling and Management of Fish Populations with High and Low Fecundities

    • B. S. Goh
    Pages 54-63

  7. Adaptive Identification of Models Stabilizing Under Uncertainty

    • Janislaw M. Skowronski
    Pages 64-78

  8. Computational Difficulties in the Identification and Optimization of Control Systems

    • H. T. Banks
    Pages 79-94

  9. Economic Models of Fishery Management

    • Colin W. Clark
    Pages 95-111

  10. Vulnerability of a Prey-Predator Model Under Harvesting

    • Thomas L. Vincent
    Pages 112-132

  11. Nonvulnerability of Two Species Interactions

    • M. E. Fisher, B. S. Goh
    Pages 133-150

  12. Estimating Controllability Boundaries for Uncertain Systems

    • Walter J. Grantham
    Pages 151-162

  13. Estimating the Effect of Krill Harvesting on the Southern Ocean Ecosystem

    • J. R. Beddington
    Pages 163-173

  14. Appraisal of the Commercial Potential of the New Zealand Deepwater Fishery

    • Martin S. Putterill
    Pages 174-188

  15. Subinjurious Maintenance Strategies for Optimal Control of Nematodes

    • Hugh N. Comins, Brian R. Trenbath
    Pages 189-205

  16. A Plant-Water Model with Implications for the Management of Water Catchments

    • R. McMurtrie
    Pages 206-224

  17. Mathematical Modelling of the Transport and Loss of Leachable Plant Nutrients in Field Soils

    • C. W. Rose
    Pages 225-236
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As society becomes stressed by economic and population pressures, in turn, nature's renewable resources become stressed by harvesting pressures. For our own survival and euphoria, it is paramount that such resources remain as their name implies and not be driven to extinction through short term programs of over exploitation. Consideration of the harvesting of renewable resources leads to a simple question that was the theme of the workshop and is the focus of these proceedings: SUPPoRe you are assigned the role of manager for a specific renewable resource eco­ system. How would you decide on harvesting policies so that the system can be exploited economically yet at the same time maintain the integrity of the system? This, of course, is a loaded question. First of all, it is not clear that there is ever anyone single decision maker who is able to set the rules for all of the harvesters in an exploited ecosystem. The political process is complicated and to some extent unpredictable. This aspect of the question is recognized to be important, but could not be addressed here. Assuming then that someone really is in charge, what would be involved in the * decision making process? As Clark points out, "there is no alternative but first to model the system. " We agree. However, if the original question was loaded, modeling is the adulterate.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    Thomas L. Vincent

  • Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

    Janislaw M. Skowronski

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