GEOG 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Adaptive Management, Fair Coin, Statistical Model
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In class quiz: jan 28, 2 questions, 3 short answer parts, 20 mins, material drawn from lecures in january, but not from readings. Complex vs complicated: if we embrace complexity and get information about complexity, it might not be as complicated. Characteristics of complex systems: difficult to define boundaries. Some questions may have one boundary, some have multiple: system memory: History matters; influence in past = influence towards future. Understanding system memory = helps answer questions: emergent properties: We need to understand the whole system: nonlinear relationships, feedback loops. Each node influence each other: systems can exist in more than one stable" state. Systems can exist in different stable states": introduction of a new species can affect the flexibility of the system. Scientific uncertainty: not knowing vs how well something is known, we"ll look at this from the second definition. Different types of scientific uncertainty: future events:
