[PDF] Economic Environmental Modeling In A National Regional System eBook

Author : Olej, Vladim¡r
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1609601580

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Understanding the advancement of sustainable development is critical to managing human activities to avoid the overexploitation of resources and pollution of the environment beyond tolerable levels. Sustainable development involves not only preservation and care of the environment, but also recognition of the complex relations between economic, social and living systems. Environmental Modeling for Sustainable Regional Development: System Approaches and Advanced Methods presents processing methods and their applications, which are practical for decision making and task management at the regional level as well as for scientific studies in sustainable development assessment. This book serves as a reference guide for post-graduate students in the field of management as well as a critical guide for managers, government officials, and information professionals.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 2007-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0309110009

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Many regulations issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are based on the results of computer models. Models help EPA explain environmental phenomena in settings where direct observations are limited or unavailable, and anticipate the effects of agency policies on the environment, human health and the economy. Given the critical role played by models, the EPA asked the National Research Council to assess scientific issues related to the agency's selection and use of models in its decisions. The book recommends a series of guidelines and principles for improving agency models and decision-making processes. The centerpiece of the book's recommended vision is a life-cycle approach to model evaluation which includes peer review, corroboration of results, and other activities. This will enhance the agency's ability to respond to requirements from a 2001 law on information quality and improve policy development and implementation.

Author : F.M. Brouwer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 1987-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Regional economic modelling; Environmental issues in regional economic modelling; Integrated environmental modelling; Outile of the study; Introduction to integrated environmental modelling: a survey and an evaluation; Integrated environmental models: a survey; Multi-objective ontrol of nutrient loadings into a lake; Simulation of regional development and fishery activities; Policy analysis of water management for the Netherlands; Policy analysis to protect an estuary from floods; Economic-environemntal-ecological impact analysis of flood plain models; An economic-ecological model for land-marine integrated development; An environmental ecosystem quality management model; A triple layer approach to a national-regional economic-environmental-employment model; Systems approach of economic-environmental-energy analysis; Simulation of the impacts of herbicides on the environment and agriculture; Economic-ecological analysis by simulation and optimization; Urbanization and environmental planning and design; An integrated regional environmental model for physical planning; Interactions between economic-social-ecological systems in a region of intense agriculture; Concluding remarks; Evaluation of integrated environmental modelling approaches; The objective of study and the objective of analysis; The modules and the mathematical tools; Dimensions of space and time in integrated environmental models; Methodology and tools to operationalize an integrated environmental model; A systems approach to an integrated environmental model; Systems theory; Two designs of integration; Statistical and econometric tools to operationalize and integrated environmental model; Systems with binary, qualitative and quantitative information; Statistical models with qualitative and quantitative data; Multivariate analysis for non-metric data; An integrated environmental modelling approach; Towards an integrated environmental model for the biesboch area; Design of an integrated systems model and the treatment of key phenomena; Causality analysis of an integrated environmental model; Outdoor recreation in the biesboch area; A spatial characterization of outdoor recreation; The multivariate nature of outdoor recreation; Path analysis and recreation activities; Reflection of the study; Outlook of the study.

Author : T. Hasegawa
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2014-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1483145778

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Urban, Regional and National Planning (UNRENAP): Environmental Aspects contains the proceedings of a Workshop on Urban, Regional and National Planning held in Kyoto, Japan, on August 5-6, 1977 under the auspices of the International Federation of Automatic Control. The workshop provided an opportunity to address the environmental aspects of urban, regional, and national planning. The discussions are organized around the themes of modeling, evaluation, simulation, and optimization. Comprised of 34 chapters, this book begins by outlining an alternative approach to environmental modeling in which comprehensive models are replaced by a network of simpler models, focused on specific aspects of the reality and sponsored by corresponding decision-making organizations. The reader is then introduced to some socio-economic aspects of health care planning; structural modeling in a class of systems by fuzzy sets theory; and the role of legal measures in the orientation of urban growth. Subsequent chapters deal with the use of Environmental Assessment Scale as a technique for environmental evaluation; computer simulation of economy management systems; and optimal control models of regional economies. A model for pollution reduction and control is also described. This monograph will be of interest to urban planners and environmental policymakers.

Author : S. Mahendrarajah
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 1999-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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This accessible volume fills a much-needed gap and addresses coreissues on how economic and environmental systems are interconnectedlooking at how economic frameworks and features of environmentalsystems can be integrated within formal models to address changesand associated resource management issues at appropriate levels:micro level and national or global level. The more the relationship between economic and environmentalsystems is studied analytically and empirically, the more aware webecome of the gap in our existing knowledge of environmental dataand process parameters. While important empirical questions areunanswered in environmental economics literature, work on theenvironmental science of ecological systems fails to raise theright questions and identify key variables in human-exploitedecosystems. This book covers: * Concepts and Methods * Land, Water and Production * Biodiversity, Preservation and Production * Pollution Externalities * The Environment and Global Economy This timely book will be of interest to environmental scientists,economists and policy makers, students, academics, and researchersinterested in ecosystems modelling, ecological economics andenvironmental resource economics.

Author : Leon C. Braat
Publisher : North Holland
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Theory and methods; The practice of environmental and resource modeling; Policy and modeling.