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UNINA9910783658803321 |
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Titolo |
Exploring environmental change using an integrative method / / edited by Mark Lemon |
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Australia : , : Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, an imprint of Overseas Publishers Association, , 1999 |
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ISBN |
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0-429-07842-0 |
1-4822-8744-7 |
1-280-10524-0 |
9786610105243 |
0-203-30403-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Collana |
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Environmental problems and social dynamics ; ; v. 3 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Environmental monitoring |
Environmental degradation - Mathematical models |
Nature - Effect of human beings on - Mathematical models |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; PREFACE; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; Policy Relevant Research: The Nature of the Problem; Towards an Integrative Method; Background to Agriculture and Degradation in the Argolid Valley; Social Enquiry and Natural Phenomena; Complexity, Systems and Models; Agricultural Production and Change; Technology and Agricultural Production in the Argolid; Structural Weaknesses and the Argolid?; Perceived Uncertainty and Farming: Establishing a Framework for Crop Choice; Policy Relevant Modelling in the Argolid: From Sociological Investigation to Crop Choice Model |
Towards a Strategic Complex Systems Model of the Water/Salt SystemThe Strategic Model of Water Flow; Development of an Enhanced Integrated Dynamic Model; Where to From Here?; REFERENCES; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This text draws upon 'complex systems' thinking to introduce a policy-related integrative method for diagnosing and managing environmental change. This conveys how existing intellectual resources can be exploited to explore environmental decision issues without resoring to |
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