商品簡介
This book, as others in the MDS series, is geared towards making the modeling of disease attractive to students and those with emerging interests in the subject. It is the intention of the authors that these students be able to go on to model local outbreaks and understand the power of contagion in the modern, global, highly interactive world. It is not meant as an exhaustive, high-level text in disease ecology or epidemiology.The book will likely be a small seminar course text or a supplementary text in infectious disease, population biology, pest and disease management, or biological modeling courses. Courses are taught in departments of public health, epidemiology, environmental sciences, and biology. Typical class size: 20 students.A CD-Rom with STELLA and models will be included with the book. I have discussed a new arrangement--WITH NO ROYALTIES--with isee systems, the software owner. This contract will be contingent upon a final agreement with isee systems to include a save-disabled version of STELLA with the book.
作者簡介
Bruce Hannon is Jubilee professor of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and is associated with the departments of Geography, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and Bioengineering and the National Center for Super Computing Applications and the Illinois Natural History Survey.Matthias Ruth is Roy F. Weston Chair in Natural Economics, founding Director of the Center for Integrative Environmental Research at the Division of Research, Director of the Environmental Policy Program at the School of Public Policy, and founding Co-Director of the Engineering and Public Policy Program at the University of Maryland.
