Mathematical Models and Environmental Change

This book demonstrates how mathematical models constructed in system dynamics modelling platforms, such as Vensim, can be used for long term management of environmental change.

Douglas J. Crookes is an Associate Professor of Environmental Governance in the School for Public Leadership at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has over 22 years of experience in conducting problem-focused and applied research at the interface between the environment and economics.

1. Introduction 2. Models of co-evolution 3. Co-evolutionary models and system dynamics modelling 4. Using numerical methods to estimate unknown parameters in co-evolutionary models 5. Co-evolutionary models and rhino management 6. Co-evolutionary models and the prisoner's dilemma game 7. Co-evolutionary models and oceans governance: the case of the African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) 8. Discussion and conclusions