NTRES 6940

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NTRES 6940
Special Topics in Natural Resources

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

The department teaches "trial" courses under this number. Offerings vary by semester and are advertised by the department before the semester starts. Courses offered under the number will be approved by the department curriculum committee, and the same course is not offered more than twice under this number.

When Offered Fall or spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: NTRES 4940

  • 2 Credits Sat/Unsat

  • Topic: Decision Making in Natural Resources Management

  • 18046 NTRES 6940   LEC 001

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  • This course will provide an introduction to the principles and practice of structured decision making and its application in natural resource management. Students will become familiar with methods for finding optimal solutions to decision problems, and will apply these methods to natural resource problems. Students will become familiar with the application of quantitative decision modeling tools: single and multiple-objective trade-off techniques, decision trees, Bayesian belief and decision networks, linear programming, and dynamic optimization.