Future Sustainable Ecosystems: Complexity, Risk, and Uncertainty (Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Environmental Statistics) - Hardcover

Newlands, Nathaniel K

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1466582561 ISBN 13: 9781466582569

Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2016

Synopsis

Future Sustainable Ecosystems: Complexity, Risk, Uncertainty provides an interdisciplinary, integrative overview of environmental problem-solving using statistics. It shows how statistics can be used to solve diverse environmental and socio-economic problems involving food, water, energy scarcity, and climate change risks. It synthesizes interdisciplinary theory, concepts, definitions, models and findings involved in complex global sustainability problem-solving, making it an essential guide and reference. It includes real-world examples and applications making the book accessible to a broader interdisciplinary readership.

Discussions include a broad, integrated perspective on sustainability, integrated risk, multi-scale changes and impacts taking place within ecosystems worldwide. State-of-the-art statistical techniques, including Bayesian hierarchical, spatio-temporal, agent-based and game-theoretic approaches are explored. The author then focuses on the real-world integration of observational and experimental data and its use within statistical models.

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About the Author

Nathaniel Newlands conducts research work that addresses public-good food-water-energy nexus issues and tackles broad, integrated, complex global problems (e.g., climate change) to help support and advance global sustainable development. He is a strong lateral learner and systems thinker. He was born in Toronto, Canada, and has lived in North America, Europe and Africa, receiving an education within both private and public schools. He completed a B.Sc. in mathematics and physics (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada), an M.Sc. in astrophysics (University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada), a Ph.D. in resource management and environmental studies (University of British Columbia (UBC), British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada), with further post-doctoral training through the Institute of Applied Mathematics (IAM) and the Pacific Institute of the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) at UBC. He has worked as a scientific consultant, university lecturer, and since 2004, as a research scientist in environmental health within the Government of Canada (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). He is an associate faculty member in geography at the University of Victoria (UVic), Canada. He is a member of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) and The International Environmetrics Society (TIES), an editor for Frontiers in Environmental Science. He has delivered talks at major international conferences, workshops, and broader public events, and has published his research across a variety of media: books, journals, newsletters and popular articles. He has participated in major, multidisciplinary, collaborative research and development projects of varying size and complexity within the water-energy-food nexus that have achieved high-quality, high impact public-good outcomes. In 2016, he was a recipient of a prestigious Government of Canada national award, the Public Service Award of Excellence in Innovation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1466582561
• ISBN 13: 9781466582569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 410