UID:
edocfu_9959245441102883
Format:
1 online resource (333 pages)
ISBN:
1-59726-789-9
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1-4356-4578-2
Content:
Todays natural resource managers must be able to navigate among the complicated interactions and conflicting interests of diverse stakeholders and decisionmakers. Technical and scientific knowledge, though necessary, are not sufficient. Science is merely one component in a multifaceted world of decision making. And while the demands of resource management have changed greatly, natural resource education and textbooks have not. Until now.Ecosystem Management represents a different kind of textbook for a different kind of course. It offers a new and exciting approach that engages students in active problem solving by using detailed landscape scenarios that reflect the complex issues and conflicting interests that face todays resource managers and scientists. Focusing on the application of the sciences of ecology and conservation biology to real-world concerns, it emphasizes the intricate ecological, socioeconomic, and institutional matrix in which natural resource management functions, and illustrates how to be more effective in that challenging arena.Each chapter is rich with exercises to help facilitate problem-based learning. The main text is supplemented by boxes and figures that provide examples, perspectives, definitions, summaries, and learning tools, along with a variety of essays written by practitioners with on-the-ground experience in applying the principles of ecosystem management.Accompanying the textbook is an instructors manual that provides a detailed overview of the book and specific guidance on designing a course around it. Download the manual here.Ecosystem Management grew out of a training course developed and presented by the authors for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at its National Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. In 20 offerings to more than 600 natural resource professionals, the authors learned a great deal about what is needed to function successfully as a professional resource manager. The book offers important insights and a unique perspective dervied from that invaluable experience.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Essay Contributors -- Introduction: New Approaches for a New Millennium -- Part I: The Conceptual Toolbox -- Ch. 1: The Landscape Scenarios -- The ROLE Model -- SnowPACT -- PDQ Revival -- Ch. 2: Getting a Grip on Ecosystem Management -- The Evolution of Natural Resource Management Toward Ecosystem Management -- A Model of Ecosystem Management -- A Closer Look at Ecosystem Management -- Information, Organizational Behavior, and Command and Control -- References and Suggested Readings -- Ch. 3: Incorporating Uncertainty and Complexity into Management -- Sources of Complexity and Uncertainty in Natural Resource Management -- Dealing with Complexity and Uncertainty -- References and Suggested Readings -- Ecosystem Management in Policy and Practice -- Ch. 4: Adaptive Management -- Adaptive Management: Another Way to Learn -- Active Adaptive Management -- Passive Adaptive Management -- Adaptive Management as Documented Trial and Error -- Conditions Necessary for Successful Adaptive Management -- References and Suggested Readings -- Part II: The Biological and Ecological Background -- Ch. 5: Genetic Diversity in Ecosystem Management -- What Is Genetic Diversity? -- The Loss of Allelic Richness -- The Role of Genetics in Conservation and Ecosystem Management -- References and Suggested Readings -- Ch. 6: Issues Regarding Populations and Species -- The Species -- The Roles of Species in Science and Policy -- Connecting Populations and Species to Landscapes -- References and Suggested Readings -- The Copper River Watershed Project -- Ch. 7: Populations and Communities at the Landscape Level -- Single-Species Management -- Managing for Species Communities -- References and Suggested Readings -- The Winyah Bay Focus Area -- Ch. 8: Landscape-Level Conservation.
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Habitat Fragmentation -- Mosaic and Matrix -- References and Suggested Readings -- Southern California Natural Community Conservation Planning -- Ch. 9: Managing Biodiversity Across Landscapes: A Manager's Dilemma -- Ecosystems or Species? Coarse-Filter and Fine-Filter Approaches -- Landscape-Level Considerations That Protect Biodiversity and Ecosystems -- Working Across Administrative Boundaries -- HCPs: Protecting Biodiversity While Promoting Cooperation -- References and Suggested Rea -- The Malpai Borderlands Group: Building the "Radical Center" -- Part III: The Human Dimensions -- Ch. 10: Working in Human Communities -- The Success Triangle -- Stakeholder Identification and Assessment -- Techniques for Stakeholder Involvement -- Keys to Successful Collaboration -- Three Little Words -- References and Suggested Readings -- Collaborative Stewardship: Views from Both Sides Now -- Ch. 11: Strategic Approaches to Ecosystem Management -- Characteristics of Strategic Management -- A Simple Strategic Management Model -- The Strategic-Thinking Step -- References and Suggested Readings -- If All It Took Was Money, Community-Based Conservation Would Be Easy -- Ch. 12: Evaluation -- Formative Evaluation -- Process Evaluation -- Summative Evaluation -- References and Suggested Readings -- Participation in Local Government Land-Use Decisions -- A Final Word -- Glossary -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-55963-824-9
Language:
English
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