Ecosystem Management: Adaptive, Community-Based Conservation

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meffe, Gary K., Author.

Contributor:

Nielsen, Larry A., Contributor.

Knight, Richard L., Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecosystem management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Island Press 2002

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

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

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

Ch. 6: Issues Regarding Populations and Species

The Species

The Roles of Species in Science and Policy

Connecting Populations and Species to Landscapes

The Copper River Watershed Project

Ch. 7: Populations and Communities at the Landscape Level

Single-Species Management

Managing for Species Communities

The Winyah Bay Focus Area

Ch. 8: Landscape-Level Conservation.

Habitat Fragmentation

Mosaic and Matrix

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

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

If All It Took Was Money, Community-Based Conservation Would Be Easy

Ch. 12: Evaluation

Formative Evaluation

Process Evaluation

Summative Evaluation

Participation in Local Government Land-Use Decisions

A Final Word

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

9781597267892

1597267899

9781435645783

1435645782

OCLC:

974280893