Optimization of natural resource management: Application to French copper cycle

Promoting Natural Resource Management with an Emphasis on Good Governance

Background and Objectives: Good governance has received a lot of attention regarding the better management of natural resources, because of its efforts to improve the ability of the natural resource management system. In other words, good governance can affect the socio-economic components of the region and ultimately the improvement of natural habitats. In this regard, evaluating good governan...

Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’ although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’ the impacts have been often ignored or off lo...

Value of information in natural resource management: technical developments and application to pink-footed geese

The "value of information" (VOI) is a generic term for the increase in value resulting from better information to guide management, or alternatively, the value foregone under uncertainty about the impacts of management (Yokota and Thompson, Medical Decision Making 2004; 24: 287). The value of information can be characterized in terms of several metrics, including the expected value of perfect i...

Sustainability Natural Resource Management 1

Robust Dynamic Optimization and Natural Resource Management: Numerical Methods and Fisheries Management

Most resource management problems exist in a setting of not only risk, but of Knightian uncertainty. That is, not only is the problem stochastic, the underlying distribution for this randomness is not known with certainty and is difficult to recover. When faced with such problems of uncertainty or ambiguity, many decision makers do not follow a simple subjective expected utility type behavior (...