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Title: Mathematical Models in Environmental Problems Author(s): G.I. Marchuk Pages: 220 Publisher: Elsevier Publication date: 1986 Language: English Format: PDF ISBN-10: 044487965X ISBN-13: Description: PREFACE
In the past few years, environmental protection has become a challenging
scientific task whose importance is highlighted by ever-increasing pace of
technological progress throughout the world. The swift industrial development
resulting in increased level of industrial pollution of the environment has
already begun disturbing the ecological equilibrium in many regions of the
globe. Meanwhile industry continues to develop at unprecedented rates, giving
a powerful impetus to research associated with the location of new industrial
plants and complexes exerting minimum impacts on the environment. The problem
of environmental contamination by industrial plants whose maximum permissible
level of safe pollution is still inconsistent with current requirements has
become even more pressing. All this refers equally to the processes occurring
on land and in the ocean.
Environmental protection problems have been taken up in a series of investigations
carried out in the Soviet Union, specifically at the Chief Geophysical
Observatory of the State Hydrometeorological Committee, as well as abroad.
Selective information on such investigations can be gained from the references
at the end of this book. In the present monograph,special attention is paid
to mathematical modelling of optimization problems associated with environmental
protection. These problems were first posed by the author in 1970 at the International
Environmental Protection Symposium, which was held in Czechoslovakia
(RudohoGi). The author's talk at this Symposium served a starting point for
his further research in the field, which was reported subsequently at international
symposia in Italy (Rome, 1973), France (Nice, 1975), and FRG (Wurzburg, 1977).
These findings provided the basis for the monograph. A substantial amount of
research along these lines has been accomplished by staff of the Computer Center
of the Siberian Dividm of the USSR Academy of Sciences. An active role in these
efforts belongs to V.V.Penenko, N.N.Obraztsov, V.I.Kuzin, A.E.Aloyan, E.A.Tsvetova,
and some other scientists. Much work has been done by the research probationer
A.Yu.Sokolov, who computed examples illustrating the opportunities provided by
the methods. Besides, the monograph draws on the calculations conducted by
A.E.Aloyan, A.A.Kordzadze, V.I.Kuzin, N.N.Obraztsov, and V.A.Sukhorukov, to
whom the author expresses his deep gratitude.
In the present book, the author restricts himself to the study of direct environmental
impact, leaving aside the problem of climatic fluctuations caused by manmade
factors, which seems to be of interest in its own right. This latter issue
is expected to be treated in a specific monograph which is being prepared at
the Computer Center of the Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
6 Preface
Much of the monograph's text was edited by N.N.Obraztsov to whom the author
pays special tribute.
The book was primarily written by the author during his staying on vacation
in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, where the environmental protection
problems are being intensely studied in connection with major industrialization
and irrigation projects for desert and arid regions of the republic. The author
is grateful to M.G.Gaporov, Ch.S.Karriyev, and A.G.Babayev for many helpful
discussions of these issues.
G.I.MARCHUK
# Hardcover: 220 pages
# Publisher: Elsevier (March 1986)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 044487965X
# ISBN-13: 978-0444879653
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