Mathematical Concepts and Tools in Sustainability

Catalog description

Explores various mathematical analysis and models pertinent to sustainability science drawn from both social and natural sciences and introduced in a problem-based context. Demonstrates basic concepts from game theory such as pure-strategy and mixed-strategy Nash equilibriums in such classic games as prisoner's dilemma, hawk-dove, coordination. Explores the evolutionary dynamics of these games through the replicator equations. Studies important concepts of stability and regime shift for selected problems. Also discusses some basic solution concepts in cooperative game theory (depending on interest and time).