OR Society SIG Agriculture and Natural Resources meeting 2/4/2009 @ Reading University
Making better decisions for the management or governance of the agricultural and natural resource industries
Frank Parkinson Room, University of Reading, 2nd April 2009
10:30 Coffee and Registration
11:00 Introduction
11:15 Katie Stephen (SAC, Edinburgh) Life cycle assessment of environmental impacts of UK pig production systems
11:40 Marco Pautasso (Imperial, Ascot) Network models for the spread of plant disease in trade pathways
12:05 Andreas Brieden (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany) Land consolidation by means of Integer Linear Programming.
12:30 Jan Zazgornik (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria) Vehicle Routing and Container Scheduling in Timber Transport
12:55 Lunch
14:00 Nonophile Nkambule (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa) An ecological-economic analysis of biodiesel feedstock production from smallholdings in rural South Africa
14:25 Maury E. Bredahl (University of Guelph Canada) Developing Managerial Decision Aids from Efficiency Analysis
14:50 Sam Wong (University of Leeds) Gendering Public Participation in Trans-boundary Water Governance - What can we Learn from the Volta River Basin in West Africa
15:15 Discussion and SIG meeting: 5 minute speeding dating introductions of practioners and their interests.
15:55 Summary & concluding remarks
16:00 Tea & departure
The OR Society: http://www.theorsociety.com/
SIG Chairman: Professor Tahir Rehman, University of Reading, [log in to unmask]
SIG Secretary: Daniel Sandars, Cranfield University, [log in to unmask]
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Daniel L. Sandars Esq.
Research Fellow in Operational Research in Natural Resources
BSc. Hons. (Agriculture); MSc. (Applied Environmental Science); MSc. (Operational Research);
CEnv MIAgrM; AFORS
Natural Resources Management Centre,
Bldg 42a, School of Applied Sciences
Cranfield University, Cranfield,
Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, UK
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