Optimal Grazing Management Rules in Semi-Arid Rangelands with Uncertain Rainfall

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 364-387

  Quaas, Martin F ^a   Baumgärtner, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental risk; Grazing management; Risk management; Rules of thumb; Stochastic optimal control

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; RAIN; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CLOSED-LOOP SOLUTION; DISCRETE-TIME MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; RISKS MANAGEMENT; RULE OF THUMB; SEMI-ARID RANGELAND; STATE-VARIABLES; STOCHASTIC OPTIMAL CONTROL; STOCHASTIC OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEM;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84859854126     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2011.00110.x     Document Type: Article

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