Ensuring greater Yellowstone's future : choices for leaders and citizens / Susan G. Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Susan G., 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yellowstone National Park (Agency : U.S.).

Landscape protection--Yellowstone National Park.

Landscape protection.

Ecology--Yellowstone National Park.

Ecology.

Environmental policy--Yellowstone National Park.

Environmental policy.

Yellowstone National Park--Forecasting.

Yellowstone National Park.

Yellowstone National Park Region--Forecasting.

Yellowstone National Park Region.

Yellowstone National Park--Management.

Yellowstone National Park--Environmental conditions.

Yellowstone National Park Region--Environmental conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (x, 303 p.))

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can environmental problems be solved when they cross boundaries and involve diverse people? What kind of leadership and institutions will bring success? From experience in the greater Yellowstone region, Susan G. Clark looks at leadership and policy in managing natural resources. She assesses accomplishments toward sustainability over the past forty years.Focusing on The Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee, a federal group of heads of national parks, national forests, and national wildlife refuges, Clark identifies fundamental leadership tasks needed, explains what changes in skill will be required, and makes many practical recommendations for every leader, citizen, and group involved with large-scale conservation anywhere worldwide.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1 Leaders and Policy in a Contested Landscape

2 Challenges Facing Greater Yellowstone

3 Leaders-Problem Solving

4 Leaders-Cooperation and Demonstrations

5 Overall Assessment-Leaders, Bureaucracy, and Context

6 Improving Leadership

7 Improving Management Policy

8 Transitioning Toward Sustainability

Appendixes

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612352065

9781282352063

1282352067

9780300145038

0300145039

OCLC:

1013966074