Agencies charged with nature conservation and protecting built-assets from fire face a policy dilemma because management that protects assets can have adverse impacts on biodiversity. Although conservation is often a policy goal, protecting built-assets usually takes precedence in fire...

Finding good parameter values for meta-heuristics is known as the parameter setting problem. A new parameter tuning strategy, called IPTS, is proposed that is a novel instance-specific method to take the trade-off between solution quality and computational time into consideration. Two important...

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyrights Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Ch. 1: Living in a Complex World: An Introduction to Resilience Thinking -- Case Study 1: Carving up a National Icon - The Florida Everglades -- Ch. 2: The System Rules: Creating a Mind Space...