Faking Nature explores the arguments surrounding the concept of ecological restoration. This is a crucial process in the modern world and is central to companies' environmental policy; whether areas restored after ecological destruction are less valuable than before the damage took place. Elliot discusses the pros and cons of the argument and examines the role of humans in the natural world. This volume is a timely and provocative analysis of the simultaneous destruction and restoration of the natural world and the ethics related to those processes, in an era of accelerated...

"It would be difficult to overstate the standing of the authors. Many HERU alumni are among the most highly esteemed health economists in the world."
--Steve Morgan, University of British Columbia

This is a series of essays to mark the 25 anniversary of HERU. Existing and former HERU staff write about their special interests and work records. This book addresses many current policy issues which exist in the Scottish (and English) National Health System.

• HERU is one of the leading health economic institutes in the UK
• Contributors are all distinguished members of...

Aimed primarily at those outside of the field of statistics, this book not only provides an accessible introduction to measure theory, stochastic calculus, and stochastic processes, with particular emphasis on martingales and Brownian motion, but develops into an excellent user's guide to filtering. Including exercises for students, it will be a complete resource for engineers, signal processing researchers, or anyone with an interest in practical implementation of filtering techniques, in particular, the Kalman filter. Three separate chapters concentrate on applications arising in finance,...