Exploring environmental change using an integrative method / edited by Mark Lemon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lemon, Mark.

Series:

Environmental problems and social dynamics ; v. 3.

Environmental problems and social dynamics ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental monitoring.

Environmental degradation--Mathematical models.

Environmental degradation.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Mathematical models.

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Gordon & Breach, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text draws upon 'complex systems' thinking to introduce a policy-related integrative method for diagnosing and managing environmental change. This conveys how existing intellectual resources can be exploited to explore environmental decision issues without resoring to such devices as 'meta-methods' or 'meta-disciplines'.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; PREFACE; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; Policy Relevant Research: The Nature of the Problem; Towards an Integrative Method; Background to Agriculture and Degradation in the Argolid Valley; Social Enquiry and Natural Phenomena; Complexity, Systems and Models; Agricultural Production and Change; Technology and Agricultural Production in the Argolid; Structural Weaknesses and the Argolid?; Perceived Uncertainty and Farming: Establishing a Framework for Crop Choice; Policy Relevant Modelling in the Argolid: From Sociological Investigation to Crop Choice Model

Towards a Strategic Complex Systems Model of the Water/Salt SystemThe Strategic Model of Water Flow; Development of an Enhanced Integrated Dynamic Model; Where to From Here?; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610105243

9781040189962

1040189962

9780429078422

0429078420

9781482287448

1482287447

9781280105241

1280105240

9780203304037

0203304039

OCLC:

437084389