Author: Amitrajeet A. Batabyal
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: economic, development, environment, approaches, stochastic, dynamic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-03-14
List price: $87.00
ISBN-10: 9812772006
ISBN-13: 9789812772008

This book is a collection of Amitrajeet A Batabyal s most important papers on the environment and economic development. It begins with a comprehensive and previously unpublished introductory chapter, followed by 12 chapters on different problems such as land use for agricultural purposes, environmental policy design, flood control, and renewable resource management. This book s uniqueness stems from the fact that it uses novel modeling tools that are largely unfamiliar to economists to shed valuable light on contemporary problems at the interface of the environment and economic development. C

Author: Amitrajeet A. Batabyal
Publisher: Nova Science Publisher
Keywords: modeling, essays, selected, range, stochastic
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1590338448
ISBN-13: 9781590338445

Although rangelands are one of the most important ecological-economic systems on our planet, researchers thus far have paid scant attention to the study of range management from a theoretical perspective. As such, this book provides a systematic approach to the theoretical study of range management under uncertainty. In particular, the book demonstrates how the theory of stochastic processes and the techniques of stochastic modelling can be used to construct and analyse theoretical models of jointly determined rangelands and thereby shed light on the task of range management. Because specialis