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| Haas, T.C. | |
| Ecosystem management via interacting models of political and ecological process | |
| 2004 Animal Biodiversity and Conservation (27): 231-245 | |
_Ecosystem management via interacting models of political and ecological processes_.- The decision to implement environmental protection options is a political one. Political realities may cause a country to not heed the most persuasive scientific analysis of an ecosystem's future health. A predictive understanding of the political processes that result in ecosystem management decisions may help guide ecosystem management policymaking. To this end, this article develops a stochastic, temporal model of how political processes influence and are influenced by ecosystem processes. This model is realized in a system of interacting influence diagrams that model the decision making of a country's political bodies. These decisions interact with a model of the ecosystem enclosed by the country. As an example, a model for Cheetah (_Acinonyx jubatus_) management in Kenya is constructed and fitted to decision and ecological data. |
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