Ratcheting up Rigor in Wildlife Management Decision Making

Decision Making in Wildlife Management

Stop for a moment and think about any issue in wildlife managementabout any other issue in your life for that matter. The issue might be as simple as selecting the type of boat you will need on a waterfowl refuge in the Midwest, or it may be as complex as multi-stakeholder deliberations about humanwild boar conflicts in suburban Berlin, Germany What determines whether these situations are probl...

Decision making in forest management with consideration of stochastic prices

  The optimal harvesting policy is calculated as a function of the entering stock, the price state, the harvesting cost, and the rate of interest in the capital market. In order to determine the optimal harvest schedule, the growth function and stumpage price process are estimated for the Swedish mixed species forests. The stumpage price is assumed to follow a stochastic Markov process. A stoch...

Metacognition and Decision Making in Management Accounting Students

Competitive and skilled management accountants are needed for the companies' survival in an ever-changing world and also a world without borders. Therefore, the problem is what components in a decision maker brings out the best decision. Since learning is continuous and continuous learning is essential in an ever changing world in order for the company to survive. The aim of this study is to de...

Internal validation of predictive logistic regression models for decision-making in wildlife management

Predictive logistic regression models are commonly used to make informed decisions related to wildlife management and conservation, such as predicting favourable wildlife habitat for land conservation objectives and predicting vital rates for use in population models. Frequently, models are developed for use in the same population from which sample data were obtained, and thus, they are intende...

Asset Management Decision-making