Agricultural ecosystems are actively managed by humans to optimize the provision of food, fiber, and fuel.
The dominant paradigm of conservation-reserve planning in economics is to optimize the provision of physical conservation benefits given a budget constraint, implicitly assuming the value of biodiversity and ecosystem function is not affected by human proximity to that natural capital.
This chapter reviews welfarist arguments for government intervention to optimize the provision of good ideas that arise from their nature.
Under this market arrangement, ES could actually optimize the provision of FR based on FR prices and prices of other services. .
Our model relies on the finish times (predicted by the vCell manager) of jobs on a virtual machine to optimize the provisioning of virtual resources and allocation of jobs.
In this scenario analysis, policymakers of organizations concerned with residence for people with mental health problems in Eindhoven, jointly outlined four scenarios that provide guidelines for actions to optimize the provision of residences (step 3).
These subthemes are, accidentally, in line with the concepts of the Expanded Chronic Care Model, a framework that can be used to optimize the provision of care for patients with chronic diseases, to decrease the burden of the disease and to prevent its occurrence through population based health promotion [ 10].
The concept of continuity of care is also reflected in the Chronic Care Model (CCM), a framework that can be used to optimize the provision of care for patients with chronic conditions [ 13], and that advocates integrated care and disease management and the use of evidence-based care standards and guidelines [ 14].
An assessment of factors predicting RRV disease transmission will help local authorities identify periods of high risk, optimizing the provision of additional mosquito control measures and community education.
In health systems quality strategies aim at optimizing the provision of health care by identifying inadequate delivery of care and ultimately to influence positively the population morbidity and mortality [ 3].
Bioterrorism threats as well as emergence of new pandemic and drug-resistant variants of known infections require development of the tools that would adequately predict development of epidemics, assess efficiency of countermeasures, and optimize the efforts directed towards provision of biological safety.
