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Ecosystem Management
  • Author : Gary Meffe
  • Release Date : 01 October 2002
  • Publisher : Island Press
  • Genre : Nature
  • Pages : 313
  • ISBN 13 : 1559638249
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Book Description: Provides essays, exercises, summaries, learning tools, and definitions focusing on the issues surrounding ecosystem management.

Ecosystem Management

Ecosystem Management

Author : Gary Meffe,Larry Nielsen,Richard L. Knight,Dennis Schenborn
Publisher : Island Press
Genre : Nature
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Provides essays, exercises, summaries, learning tools, and definitions focusing on the issues surrounding ecosystem management....

Riverine Ecosystem Management

Riverine Ecosystem Management

Author : Stefan Schmutz,Jan Sendzimir
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Science
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This open access book surveys the frontier of scientific river research and provides examples to guide management towards a sustainable future of riverine ecosystems. Principal structures and functions of the biogeosphere of rivers are explained; key threats are identified, and effective solutions for restoration and mitigation are provided. Rivers are ...

Ecosystem Management

Ecosystem Management

Author : Fred B. Samson,Fritz L. Knopf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Genre : Science
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Ecosystem management has emerged in the past several years as the new paradigm for managing public and private land. It combines the principles of ecosystem-level ecology with the policy requirements of resource and public land management. This collection of selected readings will serve as an introduction to the concepts of ...

Ecosystem Management for Sustainability

Ecosystem Management for Sustainability

Author : John Peine,Samab Foundation
Publisher : CRC Press
Genre : Nature
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As the 21st century approaches, the need to put principles of sustainable living and ecosystem management into practice has never been so urgent. Ecosystem Management for Sustainability recognizes this need and shares the experiences of the editor and 54 contributing authors, each leaders in the advancement of ecosystem management and champions ...

The Politics of Ecosystem Management

The Politics of Ecosystem Management

Author : Hanna Cortner,Margaret A. Moote,Margaret A.. Moote
Publisher : Island Press
Genre : Nature
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Resource management in the United States is undergoing a fundamental change. Traditional sustained-yield approaches that focus on commodity production and human resource use are steadily giving way to ecological approaches, often referred to as ecosystem management, that have long-term ecological sustainability as their primary goal. To achieve that goal, ecosystem ...

Sustainability

Sustainability

Author : Bryan G. Norton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Genre : Nature
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While many disciplines contribute to environmental conservation, there is little successful integration of science and social values. Arguing that the central problem in conservation is a lack of effective communication, Bryan Norton shows in Sustainability how current linguistic resources discourage any shared, multidisciplinary public deliberation over environmental goals and policy. ...

Ecosystem Based Management for the Oceans

Ecosystem Based Management for the Oceans

Author : Karen McLeod,Heather Leslie
Publisher : Island Press
Genre : Science
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Conventional management approaches cannot meet the challenges faced by ocean and coastal ecosystems today. Consequently, national and international bodies have called for a shift toward more comprehensive ecosystem-based marine management. Synthesizing a vast amount of current knowledge, Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans is a comprehensive guide to utilizing this promising ...

Ecosystem Management in the United States

Ecosystem Management in the United States

Author : Steven Lewis Yaffee,Ali Phillips,Irene C. Frentz,Paul W. Hardy,Barbara Thorpe,Sussanne Maleki
Publisher : Island Press
Genre : Science
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Scientists, researchers, land managers, environmental and citizen groups, and policy makers from across the political spectrum have in recent years embraced the concept of "ecosystem management." And while the dialogue often becomes mired in questions of definition -- just what is ecosystem management, and what are its goals -- people ...

Handbook of Ecosystem Theories and Management

Handbook of Ecosystem Theories and Management

Author : Felix Muller
Publisher : CRC Press
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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As part of the Environmental and Ecological Modeling Handbooks series, the Handbook of Ecosystem Theories and Management provides a comprehensive overview of ecosystem theory and the tools - ecological engineering, ecological modeling, ecotoxicology and ecological economics -to manage these systems. The book is laid out to provide a summary or ...

Marine Ecosystem Based Management in Practice

Marine Ecosystem Based Management in Practice

Author : Julia M. Wondolleck,Steven Lewis Yaffee
Publisher : Island Press
Genre : Nature
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"Offers new insights for collaborative approaches in marine conservation management. Drawing from ten keystone case studies, Wondolleck and Yaffee offer carefully researched, practical advice along with five different pathways for collaborating successfully from community to multinational levels."--Page 4 of cover....

The Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project

The Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Ecosystem management
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The varied topics presented in these symposium proceedings represent the diverse nature of the Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project (BEMRP). Separated into six sections, the papers cover the different themes researched by BEMRP collaborators as well as brief overviews of five other ecosystem management projects. The sections are: Understanding the ...

Complexity and Ecosystem Management

Complexity and Ecosystem Management

Author : Marco Janssen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Genre : Business & Economics
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The quality of ecosystems is affected by the actions of different stakeholders who use them in a variety of ways. In order to understand this complex relationship between humans and nature, it is vital to understand the complexity of the interacting agents. The authors in this book attempt to do ...