Handbook of Operations Research in Natural Resources

ISBN-13: 9781441944160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 624 str.

Andres Weintraub; Carlos Romero; Trond Bjorndal

Opis

Operations Research Management Science approaches have helped people for the last 40 years to understand the complex functioning of the systems based upon natural resources, as well as to manage natural resources in the most efficient manner. The areas usually viewed within the natural resources field are: agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and mining and water resources. All of these areas share the common problem of optimally allocating scarcity over a period of time. The scale of time or length of the planning horizon differs from one area to another. We have almost a continuous renewal in the case of the fisheries, periodic cycles in the case of agriculture and forestry and enormous periods of time much beyond the human perception in the case of mining resources. But in all the cases, the critical issue is to obtain an efficient use of the resource along its planned time horizon. Another element of connection among the different natural resources is due to the interaction between the use of the resource and the environmental impact caused by its extraction or harvest. This type of interaction implies additional complexities in the underlying decision-making process, making the use of OR/MS tools especially relevant. HANDBOOK OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH IN NATURAL RESOURCES will be the first systematic handbook treatment of quantitative modeling natural resource problems, their allocated efficient use, and societal and economic impact. Andres Weintraub is the very top person in Natural Resource research. Moreover, he has an international reputation in OR and a former president of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). He has selected co-editors who are at the top of the sub-fields in natural resources: agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and mining. The book will cover these areas in terms with contributions from researchers on modeling natural research problems, quantifying data, developing algorithms, and discussing the benefits of research implementations. The handbook will include tutorial contributions when necessary. Throughout the book, technological advances and algorithmic developments that have been driven by natural resource problems will be called out and discussed.

Spis treści

Agriculture.- Importance of Whole-Farm Risk Management in Agriculture.- Dealing with Multiple Objectives in Agriculture.- Modeling Multifunctional Agroforestry Systems with Environmental Values: Dehesa in Spain and Woodland Ranches in California.- Environmental Criteria in Pig Diet Formulation with Multi-Objective Fractional Programming.- Modeling the Interactions Between Agriculture and the Environment.- MCDM Farm System Analysis for Public Management of Irrigated Agriculture.- Water Public Agencies Agreeing to A Covenant for Water Transfers: How to Arbitrate Price–Quantity Clauses.- Positive Mathematical Programming for Agricultural and Environmental Policy Analysis: Review and Practice.- Fisheries.- Fisheries Management.- Shared Fish Stocks and High Seas Issues.- Game Theoretic Applications to Fisheries.- Uncertainty in Bioeconomic Modelling.- Planning in Fisheries-Related Systems.- Capacity and Technical Efficiency Estimation in Fisheries: Parametric and Non-Parametric Techniques.- Studies in the Demand Structure for Fish and Seafood Products.- Forestry.- Models for Strategic Forest Management.- Tactical-Level Forest Management Models.- Harvest Operational Models in Forestry.- Log Merchandizing Model Used in Mechanical Harvesting.- Forest Transportation.- Optimization of Forest Wildlife Objectives.- Spatial Environmental Concerns.- Heuristics in Forest Planning.- Forestry Economics: Historical Background and Current Issues.- Multiple Criteria Decision-Making in Forest Planning: Recent Results and Current Challenges.- Forest Fire Management.- A Model for the Space–Time Spread of Pine Shoot Moth.- Adaptive Optimization of Forest Management in A Stochastic World.- Mining.- Application of Optimisation Techniques in Open Pit Mining.- Optimisation in Underground Mining.- Long- and Short-Term Production Scheduling at Lkab's Kiruna Mine.- An Integrated Approach to the Long-Term Planning Process in the Copper Mining Industry.

O autorze

Andrés Weintraub is the very top person in Natural Resource research. Moreover, he has an international reputation in OR and a former president of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS).