Spatial Optimization for Managed Ecosystems

by John Hof and Michael Bevers

Book Overview

Spatial optimization is a methodology used to maximize or minimize a management objective, given the limited area, finite resources, and spatial relationships in an ecosystem. Optimization approaches can be used to evaluate a great variety of options and allow tradeoff analyses that might be impossible with other methods. This book presents ideas and methods for directly optimizing the spatial layout of the landscape features in which an ecosystem...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023110636X
• ISBN13: 9780231106368
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher