Modeling and Management of Resources under Uncertainty

Thomas L. Vincent is Professor Emeritus with the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona. His main research interests are in the area of Nonlinear Control System Design, Optimal Control and Game Theory, and Evolution and Adaptation of Biological Systems. He has numerous publications and books.

Contents: Modelling/Biology: S.A. Levin: Scale and predictability in ecological modeling. C.W. Clark: Behavioral modelling and resource management. W.M. Getz: Modeling for biological resource management. G.P. Kirkwood: Optimal harvest policies for fisheries with uncertain stock sizes. L.W. Botsford: Analysis of environmental influences on population dynamics. Y. Cohen: Identification and control of stochastic linear multispecies ecosystem models. T.L. Vincent, J.S. Brown: An evolutionary response to harvesting. M.L. Rosenzweig: Density-dependent habitat selection: a tool for more effective population management.- Controls/Techniques: C.J. Walters: Approaches to adaptive policy design for harvest management. D. Ludwig: Computer-intensive methods for fisheries stock assessment. M.E. Fisher: Variability in ecosystem models: a deterministic approach. W.J. Grantham, M.E. Fisher: Generating reachable set boundaries for discrete-time systems. C.S. Lee, G. Leitmann: Uncertain dynamical systems: an application to river pollution control. G. Bojadziev, J. Skowronski: Real time management of a resource consumption model. R.J. Stonier: Control problems in irrigation management. B. Nicol: A differential game between two players harvesting from a divided fishery.- Management/Real Problems: R. McKelvey: Groundwater-based agriculture in the arid american west: modeling the transition to a steady-state renewable resource economy. G.R. Spangler: Great lakes fisheries: are explicit controls necessary? M. Mangel: Sampling highly aggregated populations with application to California sardine-management. S.S. Hanna: The structure of fishing systems and the implementation of management policy. R. Hilborn: Spatial models of tuna dynamics in the Western Pacific: is international management necessary? A. Lowes Blackwell: Examination of institutional structures in multiple resource, multiple management systems: a control theoretic approach. P.R. Sluczanowski: Optimal harvesting of a year-class of prawns.