Browsing Theses by Supervisor "Anand, Madhur"
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Coupled models of structured contagion processes in human-environment systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)Models of infectious processes are a common feature in the landscape of applied mathematics. It is rare that these processes are isolated from other significant dynamics in nature, and therefore we can incorporate some of ... -
Detecting and distinguishing transitions in ecological systems: model and data-driven approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-22)There exists a plethora of systems that have the capacity to undergo sudden transitions that result in a significantly different state or dynamic. Consider the collapse of fisheries, outbreak of disease or transition to a ... -
Emergence and Implications of Conservation Opinion Propagation in Dynamic Coupled Socio-Ecological Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-22)Human behaviour is rarely a static phenomenon. In life, individuals are presented with choices that define the trajectories they will experience days, weeks or months later. As an example consider farmer decision-making ... -
The forest transition and ecological thresholds: resilience, recovery, and predictions
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-19)A central topic in modeling land use change is to understand the forest transition from deforestation to net reforestation. Agricultural land use change is the main driver of this phenomenon; classically, agricultural ... -
Global land use and the future of sustainable consumption: projections of a coupled social-land use model
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-10)Throughout history, agricultural land use activities have shaped the environment and its inhabitants. Humans have sought to maintain their well-being for centuries by finding revolutionary ways to produce and gather food. ... -
Modeling human-coupled common pool resource systems with techniques in evolutionary game theory and reinforcement learning
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-26)Shared resource extraction among profit-seeking individuals involves a tension between individual benefit and the collective well-being represented by the persistence of the resource. In these systems, the decisions of ... -
Modelling resilience and sustainability of complex human-environment systems in agriculture and ecology
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-01)As we move further into the Anthropocene, numerous challenges to sustainable development present themselves. Questions abound: How do we feed a growing population? What steps must we take to conserve ecologically valuable ...