TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bennett,Robert John
AU  - Chorley,Richard J.
TI  - Environmental Systems: Philosophy, Analysis and Control 
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9780691628042
AV  - GF41 
U1  - 301.31/028/51 
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Human ecology. 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Accuracy and precision
KW  - Air pollution
KW  - Arrow's impossibility theorem
KW  - Autocorrelation
KW  - Bayesian
KW  - Bessel function
KW  - Big O notation
KW  - Causality
KW  - Consideration
KW  - Control function (econometrics)
KW  - Control variable
KW  - Counterintuitive
KW  - Cross-correlation
KW  - Decision-making
KW  - Dynamic programming
KW  - Economic efficiency
KW  - Economic planning
KW  - Ecosystem
KW  - Emergence
KW  - Environmental determinism
KW  - Environmental economics
KW  - Error term
KW  - Estimation theory
KW  - Estimation
KW  - Estimator
KW  - Explanation
KW  - Externality
KW  - Extrapolation
KW  - Feed forward (control)
KW  - Forecasting
KW  - Genetic fallacy
KW  - Heuristic
KW  - High- and low-level
KW  - Holism
KW  - Hypothesis
KW  - Ideal type
KW  - Indifference curve
KW  - Inference
KW  - Initial condition
KW  - Input and output (medicine)
KW  - Instrumental variable
KW  - Interdependence
KW  - Inverse problem
KW  - Isoquant
KW  - Kalman filter
KW  - Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions
KW  - Kriging
KW  - Lag operator
KW  - Laplace transform
KW  - Least squares
KW  - Loss function
KW  - Marginal rate of substitution
KW  - Mathematical optimization
KW  - Maximum likelihood estimation
KW  - Measurement
KW  - Natural environment
KW  - Natural justice
KW  - Negative feedback
KW  - Non-renewable resource
KW  - Nonlinear system
KW  - Normal conditions
KW  - Nutrient
KW  - Observability
KW  - Optimal control
KW  - PID controller
KW  - Parameter
KW  - Pareto efficiency
KW  - Partial autocorrelation function
KW  - Pollutant
KW  - Pollution
KW  - Prediction
KW  - Preference (economics)
KW  - Probability
KW  - Production–possibility frontier
KW  - Quantity
KW  - Result
KW  - Scarcity
KW  - Self-tuning
KW  - Sensitivity analysis
KW  - Servomechanism
KW  - Setpoint (control system)
KW  - Simulation
KW  - Soil
KW  - Special case
KW  - State of nature
KW  - State variable
KW  - Steady state
KW  - Stepwise regression
KW  - Stochastic control
KW  - Subsidy
KW  - Supply (economics)
KW  - Surplus value
KW  - System analysis
KW  - Tax
KW  - Theory
KW  - Time series
KW  - Transfer function
KW  - Uncertainty
KW  - Utility
KW  - Weighting
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Preface --; 1. The philosophy of environmental systems --; Part I. Hard systems --; 2. Systems methods --; 3. Control systems --; 4. Space-time systems --; Part II. Soft Systems --; 5. Cognitive systems --; 6. Decision making systems --; Part III. Complex systems --; 7. Physico-ecological systems --; 8. Socio-economic systems --; Part IV. Systems interfacing --; 9. Systems interfacing --; 10. Conclusion: future problems --; Appendices --; References --; Index of persons --; Subject index; restricted access
N2  - Here is an indispensable text and reference book for anyone interested in a systems approach to environmental studies. It will be useful not only to geographers but also to ecologists and other environmental scientists; planners; economists and other social scientists; philosophers; and applied mathematicians.Bennett and Chorley's book has a number of broad aims: first, to employ the systems approach to provide an interdisciplinary focus on environmental structures and techniques; second, to use this approach to aid in developing the interfacing of social and economic theory with physical and biological theory; and third, to investigate the implications of this interfacing for human response to current environmental dilemmas, and hence to expose the technological and social bases of values which underlie our use of natural resources.Interpreting the "environment" so as to embrace physical, biological, man-made, social, and economic reality, the authors show that the systems approach provides a powerful vehicle for the statement of environmental situations of ever-growing temporal and spatial magnitude, and for reducing the areas of uncertainty in our increasingly complex decision making arenas.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400867257
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