TY - BOOK ID - 218981 TI - Sustainable management of natural resources : mathematical models and methods AU - De Lara, M. AU - Doyen, L. PY - 2008 SN - 1281862428 9786611862428 3540790748 354079073X 364209791X PB - Berlin ; London : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Ecosystem management. KW - Environmental management KW - Mathematical models. KW - Biotic communities KW - Ecosystems management KW - Applied ecology KW - Nature conservation KW - Biodiversity conservation KW - Environmental stewardship KW - Stewardship, Environmental KW - Environmental sciences KW - Management KW - Pollution. KW - Environmental sciences. KW - Sustainable development. KW - Pollution, general. KW - Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. KW - Math. Appl. in Environmental Science. KW - Sustainable Development. KW - Development, Sustainable KW - Ecologically sustainable development KW - Economic development, Sustainable KW - Economic sustainability KW - ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) KW - Smart growth KW - Sustainable development KW - Sustainable economic development KW - Economic development KW - Environmental science KW - Science KW - Chemical pollution KW - Chemicals KW - Contamination of environment KW - Environmental pollution KW - Pollution KW - Contamination (Technology) KW - Asbestos abatement KW - Bioremediation KW - Environmental engineering KW - Environmental quality KW - Factory and trade waste KW - Hazardous waste site remediation KW - Hazardous wastes KW - In situ remediation KW - Lead abatement KW - Pollutants KW - Refuse and refuse disposal KW - Environmental aspects KW - Environmental monitoring. KW - Biomonitoring (Ecology) KW - Ecological monitoring KW - Monitoring, Environmental KW - Measurement KW - Monitoring UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:218981 AB - Nowadays, environmental issues including air and water pollution, climate change, overexploitation of marine ecosystems, exhaustion of fossil resources, conservation of biodiversity are receiving major attention from the public, stakeholders and scholars from the local to the planetary scales. It is now clearly recognized that human activities yield major ecological and envir- mental stresses with irreversible loss of species, destruction of habitat or c- matecatastrophesasthemostdramaticexamplesoftheire?ects.Infact,these anthropogenic activities impact not only the states and dynamics of natural resources and ecosystems but also alter human health, well-being, welfare and economic wealth since these resources are support features for human life. The numerous outputs furnished by nature include direct goods such as food, drugs, energy along with indirect services such as the carbon cycle, the water cycle and pollination, to cite but a few. Hence, the various ecological changes our world is undergoing draw into question our ability to sustain economic production, wealth and the evolution of technology by taking natural systems into account. The concept of “sustainable development” covers such concerns, although no universal consensus exists about this notion. Sustainable development - phasizes the need to organize and control the dynamics and the complex - teractions between man, production activities, and natural resources in order to promote their coexistence and their common evolution. It points out the importance of studying the interfaces between society and nature, and es- ciallythecouplingbetweeneconomicsandecology.Itinducesinterdisciplinary scienti?c research for the assessment, the conservation and the management of natural resources. ER -