Incorporating investment uncertainty into the prioritisation of conservation resource allocation

MODSIM05 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Advances and Applications for Management and Decision Making, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2505-2511

  McBride, M ^a   Wilson, K A ^a   Possingham, H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity hotspots; Conservation planning; Decision theory; Optimization; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIODIVERSITY VALUES; COMPLEX NATURE; CONSERVATION ACTIONS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HEURISTIC APPROACH; HOTSPOTS; INVESTMENT COSTS; LAND PARCELS; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; OPTIMAL INVESTMENTS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PARAMETER VALUES; REGIONS OF INTEREST; RELATIVE RISKS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROBLEM; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; THREAT LEVELS; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY FACTORS; CONSERVATION INVESTMENTS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVESTMENTS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 80053110043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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