Modeling and Simulation for Environmental Impact Analysis

This paper has been written to appeal to a scientific audience. It is intended to provide guidelines for the individual directly responsible for designing an environmental impact assessment. He may be a project administrator in government or industry, or he may be the head of a committee charged with developing an independent assessment. In any case, he has a specific, and well-defined role in the full decision process and must interact with the other role players. He is presumed to have a technical staff, and it is assumed that he is himself directly involved in the strategic evaluation and that his staff will be involved in the technical evaluation

On Making a Marriage, an Inst., or a Society

Every Mao needs a Chou En-Lai in marriages, institutes, and societies

Notes Towards a Science of Ecological Management

The thesis presented here is quite simply that it is now possible to catalyze a new science of ecological management/engineering. The need is obvious, but most significantly the essential pieces, independently developed, can now be integrated and/or used on ecological problems. And even more important, a relatively new concept emerging from ecology can provide a conceptual focus for a new regional strategy of ecological and resource management

Program for Ecology and Environment Project

The overall goal of the project is to demonstrate the practical and theoretical value of combining good ecology, good modeling and good policy analysis in the resolution of resource and environmental problems. There are effective examples of one or even combinations of two of these three, but no example exists of the combination of all three. This goal will be implemented by analyzing specific applied problems, developing a framework for ecological indicators and by initiating concepts of environmental standards

Summary of Budworm Workshop

A workshop was held at IIASA 14 to 16 January 1974 to develop a case study to explore the advantages of combining good ecological data, computer models and policy analysis in a coordinated whole. There are no examples available of this full combination, and the attempt to do it, therefore, forces modification and expansion of a considerable set of ecological, sampling, modeling, and policy techniques. The particular focus was an insect pest, the spruce budworm, of the coniferous forests of eastern North America

On Leaving China

Our delegation was a scientific-technical one. As such, there was a strong emotional intellectualism which identified with the brilliantly conceived experiment of China while reluctantly despairing of the tactics of indoctrination. But the delegation also had government and political representation, which, together with at least one of the scientists, reflected a strong emotional sensualism

Development and Use of Ecological Modules in Resource Development Simulation

This paper reviews the approaches we have developed for modelling biological interrelations within ecological systems and describes how these are incorporated within simulation models of resource and environmental problems which have economic, social, and physical dimensions in addition to ecological ones

Expect the Unexpected - An Adaptive Approach to Environmental Management

This Executive Report is the first of a new series of publications designed to communicate the findings of research conducted at and in collaboration with IIASA to a wider readership, especially to those who can put the findings into effect, such as executives in government and industry. This is consistent with IIASA's goal not only to develop useful information on important international issues, but also to convey that information to those who can act on it. Most of the material in this report derives from "Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management," edited by C.S. Holling. The book is based on the work of a group led by C.S. Holling, which drew upon an international network of scientists linked with IIASA and the Institute of Animal Resource Ecology of the University of British Columbia. Supplemental funding for the study and for preparation of the book was provided by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Some of the individuals who have contributed to the development of adaptive environmental assessment and management are listed on page 16

The IIASA Ecology Project: A Status Report

The Ecology Project commenced work in 1973 with the initial and continuing goal of developing a coherent science of ecological management. The products of our research can be divided into three groups: conceptual, applied, and case studies. To give the project focus, we chose to analyze in detail specific regional case studies. Each of these examples has all the ingredients of a large class of problems that together comprise the global problems of resource management for food, fiber, energy, and cultural needs of societies. This report provides an overview of the work of this project through July, 1975, and a summary of our current thinking on future directions and formats of ecological and environmental research at IIASA. The major content of this report is comprised of a description of the case studies which have formed the core of the past two years' efforts