Confronting Management Challenges in Highly Uncertain Natural Resource Systems: A Robustness-Vulnerability Trade-off Approach

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-36

  Rodriguez, Armando A ^a   Cifdaloz, Oguzhan ^b   Anderies, John Martin ^b   Janssen, Marco A ^b   Dickeson, Jeffrey ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning; Policy implementation; Resource management; Robust control; Uncertainty; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ROBUST CONTROL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

LEARNING; POLICY IMPLEMENTATIONS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; UNCERTAINTY; VULNERABILITY;

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; NATURAL RESOURCE; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; PROBABILITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TRADE-OFF; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 79151473472     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-010-9229-z     Document Type: Article

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