Research Catalog

Title

Ecosystem management : adaptive, community-based conservation / Gary K. Meffe [and others].

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©2002.

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Additional Authors

Meffe, Gary K.

Description

xv, 313 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

This text aims to engage students in active problem-solving using the detailed landscape scenarios that face the modern resource manager and scientist. It emphasizes the intricate ecological, socioeconomic and institutional matrix in which natural resource management functions.

Subject

• Ecosystem management
• Naturschutz
• Ökosystemmanagement
• Ökosystem
• Umweltbezogenes Management
• Biodiversiteit
• Natuurbehoud
• Ecosystemen
• Natuurbeheer
• Gestão ambiental
• Ecossistemas (administração)
• Administração estratégica (aspectos ambientais)
• Meio ambiente (administração)
• Recursos naturais (administração)
• Biodiversidade (administração)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: New approaches for a new millennium -- PART I: THE CONCEPTUAL TOOLBOX: The landscape scenarios -- Getting a grip on ecosystem management -- Incorporating uncertainty and complexity into management -- Adaptive management -- PART II: THE BIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL BACKGROUND: Genetic diversity in ecosystem management -- Issues regarding populations and species -- Populations and communities at the landscape level -- Landscape-level conservation -- Managing biodiversity across landscapes: a manager's dilemma -- PART III: THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS: Working in human communities -- Strategic approaches to ecosystem management -- Evaluation -- A final word.

ISBN

• 1559638249
• 9781559638241
• 1610914880
• 9781610914888

LCCN

2002007408

OCLC

• ocm49799573
• 49799573
• SCSB-14355848

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library