Handbook of Operations Research in Natural Resources

Agriculture.- Importance of Whole-Farm Risk Management in Agriculture.- Dealing with Multiple Objectives in Agriculture.- Modeling Multifunctional Agroforestry Systems with Environmental Values: Dehesa in Spain and Woodland Ranches in California.- Environmental Criteria in Pig Diet Formulation with Multi-Objective Fractional Programming.- Modeling the Interactions Between Agriculture and the Environment.- MCDM Farm System Analysis for Public Management of Irrigated Agriculture.- Water Public Agencies Agreeing to A Covenant for Water Transfers: How to Arbitrate Price-Quantity Clauses.- Positive Mathematical Programming for Agricultural and Environmental Policy Analysis: Review and Practice.- Fisheries.- Fisheries Management.- Shared Fish Stocks and High Seas Issues.- Game Theoretic Applications to Fisheries.- Uncertainty in Bioeconomic Modelling.- Planning in Fisheries-Related Systems.- Capacity and Technical Efficiency Estimation in Fisheries: Parametric and Non-Parametric Techniques.- Studies in the Demand Structure for Fish and Seafood Products.- Forestry.- Models for Strategic Forest Management.- Tactical-Level Forest Management Models.- Harvest Operational Models in Forestry.- Log Merchandizing Model Used in Mechanical Harvesting.- Forest Transportation.- Optimization of Forest Wildlife Objectives.- Spatial Environmental Concerns.- Heuristics in Forest Planning.- Forestry Economics: Historical Background and Current Issues.- Multiple Criteria Decision-Making in Forest Planning: Recent Results and Current Challenges.- Forest Fire Management.- A Model for the Space-Time Spread of Pine Shoot Moth.- Adaptive Optimization of Forest Management in A Stochastic World.- Mining.- Application of Optimisation Techniques in Open Pit Mining.- Optimisation in Underground Mining.- Long- and Short-Term Production Scheduling at Lkab's Kiruna Mine.- An Integrated Approach to the Long-Term Planning Process in the Copper Mining Industry.... Mehr