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Resource allocation for efficient environmental management.

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • Publisher Information:
      2010-10
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Environmental managers must decide how to invest available resources. Researchers have previously determined how to allocate conservation resources among regions, design nature reserves, allocate funding to species conservation programs, design biodiversity surveys and monitoring programs, manage species and invest in greenhouse gas mitigation schemes. However, these issues have not been addressed with a unified theory. Furthermore, uncertainty is prevalent in environmental management, and needs to be considered to manage risks. We present a theory for optimal environmental management, synthesizing previous approaches to the topic and incorporating uncertainty. We show that the theory solves a diverse range of important problems of resource allocation, including distributing conservation resources among the world's biodiversity hotspots; surveillance to detect the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus in Thailand; and choosing survey methods for the insect order Hemiptera. Environmental management decisions are similar to decisions about financial investments, with trade-offs between risk and reward.
      Journal Article
      Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
      FLWIN
      info:eu-repo/semantics/published
    • الموضوع:
      Sciences bio-médicales et agricoles; Animals; Biodiversity; Birds -- virology; Communicable Disease Control; Conservation of Natural Resources; Decision Theory; Environmental Monitoring; Influenza A Virus, H5N1 Subtype -- isolation & purification; Influenza in Birds -- epidemiology -- prevention & control; Uncertainty; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; info:ulb-repo/semantics/articlePeerReview; info:ulb-repo/semantics/openurl/article
    • Availability:
      Open access content. Open access content
      2 full-text file(s): info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
    • Note:
      2 full-text file(s): application/pdf | application/pdf
      English
    • Other Numbers:
      EQY oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/115824
      uri/info:doi/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01522.x
      uri/info:pii/ELE1522
      uri/info:pmid/20718844
      803496085
    • Contributing Source:
      UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES
      From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative.
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsoai.ocn803496085
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