Requisite simplicities to help negotiate complex problems

Ambio

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 600-607

  Stirzaker, Richard ^a   Biggs, Harry ^b   Roux, Dirk ^c   Cilliers, Paul ^d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b KRUGER NATIONAL PARK   (South Africa)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adaptive learning; Complexity; Decision support models; Irrigation; Natural resource management; Reductionism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; COMPLEXITY; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELEPHANT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; NATIONAL PARK; POPULATION DENSITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SALT;

ARTICLE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NEGOTIATING;

EID: 78149362131     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-010-0075-7     Document Type: Article

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