Land cover modeling is used to inform land management, but most often via a two-step process, where science informs how management alternatives can influence resources, and then, decision makers can use this information to make decisions. A more efficient process is to directly integrate science...

Recently many state and federal agencies in the U.S. have embraced an ecosystems management approach to environmental protection and regulation. This approach requires a high degree of cooperation between natural and social scientists to translate policy objectives into research hypotheses,...

Our aim is to make an appropriate characterization and interpretation of the risk problem of rapid large sea level rise that reflects the very large uncertainty in present day knowledge concerning this possibility, and that will be useful in informing discussion about risk management approaches....

The Red River Basin (RRB) in Vietnam was selected in 1997 as the first ecoregional pilot site of the Ecoregional Initiative for the Humid and Subhumid Tropics of Asia (EcoR(I)-Asia) as it encapsulates many of the problems and issues commonly found in the Asian tropics, associated with the...

In this paper, we build on common-pool research and adaptive management to increase our understanding on if and how communication between resource users affects their joint ability to learn about and manage complex ecological resources. More specifically we study the role of user communication...

Статья посвящена особенностям применения методологии адаптивного подхода к управлению производственными запасами. Автором показаны возможности...

Статья посвящена обзору современного состояния теории синтеза и практики внедрения систем управления запасами. Показаны основные проблемы реализации...

Under a ‘landscape approach’ to biodiversity conservation, USAID/Madagascar integrates by design concerns for forest resources and humans in five target ecoregions. This paper examines relationships between its strategic framework and how the mission reports results from development...

Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, one of the most important protected areas in the world, is the subject of increasingly acute environmental degradation processes through the influence of different factors that trigger this phenomenon. Adaptive management, comes to stop this process through the...

A preference for negative reciprocity is an important part of the human emotional repertoire. We model its role in sustaining cooperative behavior but highlight an intrinsic free-rider problem: the fitness benefits of negative reciprocity are dispersed throughout the entire group, but the...