International Series In Operations Research amp; Mana
              Volume              992007
Handbook Of Operations Research In Natural Resources

Editors:

• Andres Weintraub,
• Carlos Romero,
• Trond Bjørndal,
• Rafael Epstein,
• Jaime Miranda
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ISBN: 978-0-387-71814-9 (Print) 978-0-387-71815-6  (Online)

About this book

• Natural resources has been an application in numerous Operations Research papers; however, there have been few, if any, books that organizes and discusses the OR models in this area
•                                         First systematic handbook treatment of quantitative models applied to natural resource problems
•                                         A handbook that fills a gaping hole in the international fields of natural resources and environmental engineering
  

This is the first systematic handbook treatment of quantitative modeling natural resource problems, their allocated efficient use, and societal and economic impact.
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.
But in all the cases, the critical issue is to obtain an efficient use of the resource along its planned time horizon.
Andrés Weintraub is the very top person in Natural Resource research. He has selected co-editors who are at the top of the sub-fields in natural resources: agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and mining.
The book covers these areas with contributions from researchers on, among others, modeling natural rese

Table of contents Preface.- Importance of whole-farm risk management in agriculture.- Dealing with multiple objectives in agriculture.- Modeling multifunctional agroforestry systems with environmental values.- Environmental criteria in pig diets 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.- Positive mathematical programming for agricultural and environmental policy analysis.- Fisheries management.- Shared fish stock and high seas issues.- Game theoretic applications to fisheries.- Uncertainty in bioeconomic modeling.- Planning in fisheries related systems.- Capacity and technical efficiency estimation in fisheries.- Studies in the demand structure for fish and seafood products.- Models for strategic forest management.- Tactical level forest management models.- Harvest operational models in forestry.- Log merchandising model used in mechanical harvesting.- Forest transportation.- Optimization of forest wildlife objectives.- Spatial environmental concerns.- Heuristics in forest planning.- Forest economics: historical background and current issues.- Multiple criteria decision making in forest planning.- Forest fire management.- A model for the spatial-time spread of pine shoot moth.- Adaptive optimization of forest management in a stochastic world.- 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.- Index.

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).