Instabilities and robust control in natural resource management

Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’ although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’ the impacts have been often ignored or off lo...

Robust Dynamic Optimization and Natural Resource Management: Numerical Methods and Fisheries Management

Most resource management problems exist in a setting of not only risk, but of Knightian uncertainty. That is, not only is the problem stochastic, the underlying distribution for this randomness is not known with certainty and is difficult to recover. When faced with such problems of uncertainty or ambiguity, many decision makers do not follow a simple subjective expected utility type behavior (...

Promoting Natural Resource Management with an Emphasis on Good Governance

Background and Objectives: Good governance has received a lot of attention regarding the better management of natural resources, because of its efforts to improve the ability of the natural resource management system. In other words, good governance can affect the socio-economic components of the region and ultimately the improvement of natural habitats. In this regard, evaluating good governan...

Simulation and gaming in natural resource management

Conflict and Collaboration in Natural Resource Management

Why does conflict occur over the use of natural resources? How are external factors built into local conflicts? What governing mechanisms are conducive to equitable and sustainable natural resource management by communities? When do local strategies for conflict management need to be complemented or replaced by external or new mechanisms? How can research help identify opportunities for turning...