Book description
This book is intended for use by natural resource managers and
scientists, and students in the fields of natural resource management,
ecology, and conservation biology, who are confronted with complex and
difficult decision making problems. The book takes readers through the
process of developing a structured approach to decision making, by
firstly deconstructing decisions into component parts, which are each
fully analyzed and then reassembled to form a working decision model.
The book integrates common-sense ideas about problem definitions, such
as the need for decisions to be driven by explicit objectives, with
sophisticated approaches for modeling decision influence and
incorporating feedback from monitoring programs into decision making
via adaptive management. Numerous worked examples are provided for
illustration, along with detailed case studies illustrating the
authors' experience in applying structured approaches. There is also a
series of detailed technical appendices. An accompanying website
provides computer code and data used in the worked examples.
Additional resources for this book can be found at:
www.
wiley. com/go/conroy/naturalresourcemanagement.
Michael J. Conroy
is a Senior Research Scientist in the Warnell School of Forestry and
Natural Resources at the University of Georgia. He has over thirty years
experience in applications of quantitative approaches to solving
problems in natural resource management and is the author of three
previous books. He teaches and runs workshops in modeling, statistical
estimation, and structured decision making for undergraduate
and graduate students and professionals both in the US and internationally.
James T. Peterson is the Assistant Unit Leader and Associate
Professor for the USGS Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research
Unit at Oregon State University. He has been developing and teaching
courses in applied quantitative decision making to undergraduate
and graduate students and professionals in natural resource and
related disciplines for more than a decade.
