DocumentCode :
3013489
Title :
Applications of systems science in projecting alternative food and agriculture futures
Author :
Quance, L. ; Yao-Chi Lu
Author_Institution :
USDA, Washington, DC
fYear :
1976
fDate :
1-3 Dec. 1976
Firstpage :
506
Lastpage :
507
Abstract :
Public and private policy decisions, program planning and management, and expenditures of limited federal and state funds affect food production capacity, commodity supply-demand, resource development and use, the environment, economic development and the world food situation. Providing a reasonable balance between production capacity and the need for food and fiber is the implied national goal. In dealing with the long-run aspects of these problems, public decisionmakers are increasingly turning to projections and analyses of alternative futures. Whereas we have traditionally studied the past to understand the present, we need to study the future to better manage the present and to better plan the future. Confronted with a multitude of unprecedented and inter-related global problems in population, the environment, food, and energy, decisionmakers need more and better information about alternatives, trade-offs, and impacts on social value functions.
Keywords :
Capacity planning; Economic forecasting; Environmental economics; Environmental management; Information analysis; Power generation economics; Production planning; Production systems; Project management; US Department of Agriculture;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control including the 15th Symposium on Adaptive Processes, 1976 IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Clearwater, FL, USA
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.1976.267784
Filename :
4045644
Link To Document :
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