Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is one of the components of the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), which are good examples of evolutionary adapted socio-ecosystems in human history. The Hani Rice Terraces System, located in China’s southwestern Yunnan Province, is...

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- The People's Republic of China's Evolving Eco-Compensation Framework: Background and Select Provincial Case Studies -- Group 1: Eastern Provinces -- Case Study 1: Fujian -- Case Study 2: Guangdong -- Case...

This paper studies inventory constraints in a machine scheduling environment. Jobs can add and remove items of different types to the inventory and from the inventory, respectively. Jobs removing items cannot be processed if the required amount of items is not available. We first have a look at...

We consider the problem of allocating containers to ships in which the size of container is 1 or 2, and each ship has its own capacity and fixed departure time. The fixed departure times implies the completion times of containers belonging to the same ship are identical. As objectives, Lmax,...

This paper focuses on Single machine scheduling subject to inventory constraints. Jobs add and remove items to and from, respectively, the inventory. Jobs that remove items cannot be processed if the required number of items is not available. We consider scheduling problems on a Single machine...

The financial services industry differs from other service industries in ways that affect the nature of the operational risks it is subject to. In recent decades, many books and papers have focused on operational risk in financial services. However, the literature has focused mainly on the...