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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Adaptive natural resource management
ISBN : MINN:31951D029778108
Author : U S Department of Agriculture
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511582790
The Northwest Forest Plan (the Plan) identifies adaptive management as a central strategy for effective implementation. Despite this, there has been a lack of any systematic evaluation of its performance. This study is based on an extensive literature review, 50 interviews with resource managers and scientists involved with the Plan's implementation, and a survey of over 400 citizens in Oregon and Washington who participated in public involvement programs related to the adaptive management elements of the Plan. The study documents experiences with adaptive approaches, identifies key facilitators of, and barriers to, implementation of such approaches, and suggests needed changes to enhance implementation. Major problems confront efforts to undertake adaptive approaches, and these derive from a complex set of factors including a risk-averse organizational culture; a restrictive legal-political environment; and inadequate training, staffing, and financial resources.
Author : Gary Meffe,Larry Nielsen,Richard L. Knight,Dennis Schenborn
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597267892
Today's 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 today's 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 instructor's manual that provides a detailed overview of the book and specific guidance on designing a course around it. 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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Adaptive natural resource management
ISBN : OCLC:74733536
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : LOC:00186271750
Author : Nataša Rupčić
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031577048
Author : Fikret Berkes,Johan Colding,Carl Folke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781139434799
In the effort towards sustainability, it has become increasingly important to develop conceptual frames to understand the dynamics of social and ecological systems. Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social-ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. The concept of resilience is central in this context. Resilient social-ecological systems have the potential to sustain development by responding to and shaping change in a manner that does not lead to loss of future options. Resilient systems also provide capacity for renewal and innovation in the face of rapid transformation and crisis. The term navigating in the title is meant to capture this dynamic process. Case studies and examples from several geographic areas, cultures and resource types are included, merging forefront research from natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities into a common framework for new insights on sustainability.
Author : Pierre Collet,Latafat Gardashova,Samer El Zant,Ulviya Abdulkarimova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031443558
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Complex Computational Ecosystems, CCE 2023, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, during April 25–27, 2023. The 16 full papers and the 4 keynote abstracts included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. They explore trans-disciplinary challenges that crossed theoretical questions with empirical observations of multi-level and multi-modal computational ecosystems.
Author : J.C.J.M. van den Bergh,J. Hoekstra,R. Imeson,P.A.L.D. Nunes,A.T. de Blaeij
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781402040597
This book offers an environmental-economic analysis of exploited ecosystems with a clear policy orientation. The study moves beyond traditional economic fishery analysis in two respects. First, several theoretical and numerical models are offered that combine economic and ecological descriptions of fisheries. Second, valuation and stakeholder concerns are addressed in empirical analyses employing both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The approaches, models and policy insights are sufficiently general and innovative to interest a broad audience.
Author : Derek Armitage,Fikret Berkes,Nancy Doubleday
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780774859721
In Canada and around the world, new concerns with adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships are reshaping environmental governance. Meanwhile, ideas about collaboration and learning are converging around the idea of adaptive co-management. This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the core concepts, strategies, and tools in this emerging field, informed by a diverse group of researchers and practitioners with over two decades of experience. It also offers a diverse set of case studies that reveal the challenges and implications of adaptive co-management thinking.
Author : F Stuart Chapin III,Gary P. Kofinas,Carl Folke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780387730332
The world is undergoing unprecedented changes in many of the factors that determine its fundamental properties and their in- ence on society. These changes include climate; the chemical c- position of the atmosphere; the demands of a growing human population for food and ?ber; and the mobility of organisms, ind- trial products, cultural perspectives, and information ?ows. The magnitude and widespread nature of these changes pose serious challenges in managing the ecosystem services on which society depends. Moreover, many of these changes are strongly in?uenced by human activities, so future patterns of change will continue to be in?uenced by society’s choices and governance. The purpose of this book is to provide a new framework for n- ural resource management—a framework based on stewardship of ecosystems for human well-being in a world dominated by unc- tainty and change. The goal of ecosystem stewardship is to respond to and shape change in social-ecological systems in order to s- tain the supply and opportunities for use of ecosystem services by society. The book links recent advances in the theory of resilience, sustainability, and vulnerability with practical issues of ecosystem management and governance. The book is aimed at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students of natural resource management as well as professional managers, community leaders, and policy makers with backgrounds in a wide array of d- ciplines, including ecology, policy studies, economics, sociology, and anthropology.
Author : Deanna H. Olson,Beatrice Van Horne
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610917674
Forests throughout the world are undergoing rapid, far-reaching change as a result of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. The challenge is to manage these forests in ways that avoid formulaic approaches to complex issues. This book takes on the challenge of balancing local economies, wood products, and biodiversity by proposing diverse new approaches to forest management using new research from the moist coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest. --
Author : David Waltner-Toews,James J. Kay,Nina-Marie E. Lister
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231132503
Is sustainable development a workable solution for today's environmental problems? Is it scientifically defensible? Best known for applying ecological theory to the engineering problems of everyday life, the late scholar James J. Kay was a leader in the study of social and ecological complexity and the thermodynamics of ecosystems. Drawing from his immensely important work, as well as the research of his students and colleagues, The Ecosystem Approach is a guide to the aspects of complex systems theories relevant to social-ecological management. Advancing a methodology that is rooted in good theory and practice, this book features case studies conducted in the Arctic and Africa, in Canada and Kathmandu, and in the Peruvian Amazon, Chesapeake Bay, and Chennai, India. Applying a systems approach to concrete environmental issues, this volume is geared toward scientists, engineers, and sustainable development scholars and practitioners who are attuned to the ideas of the Resilience Alliance-an international group of scientists who take a more holistic view of ecology and environmental problem-solving. Chapters cover the origins and rebirth of the ecosystem approach in ecology; the bridging of science and values; the challenge of governance in complex systems; systemic and participatory approaches to management; and the place for cultural diversity in the quest for global sustainability.
Author : Lytras, Miltiadis D.,Naeve, Ambjrn
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781599041193
"This book presents learning and knowledge management from a point of view where the basic tools and applications are provided by open source technologies. It explains an intense orientation to the critical issues of the open source paradigm: open source tools, applications, social networks, and knowledge sharing in open source communities"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Francis Stuart Chapin (III),Pamela A. Matson,Harold A. Mooney
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0387954430
Features review questions at the end of each chapter; Includes suggestions for recommended reading; Provides a glossary of ecological terms; Has a wide audience as a textbook for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and as a reference for practicing scientists from a wide array of disciplines
