Ecosystem Management: Adaptive, Community-Based Conservation

by Richard L. Knight, Dennis Schenborn, Larry Nielsen, et al.

Book Overview

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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559638249
• ISBN13: 9781559638241
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Summary of Ecosystem Management Concepts

If you are interested in Ecosystem Managment, than you probably have heard of most of the concepts in this book. However, this book provides a good easy to read (and easy to understand) summary of concepts related to Ecosystem Managment.

A highly recommended contribution to Environmental Studies

The collective and collaborative effort of Gary K. Meffe (Adjunct Professor, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida), Larry A. Nielsen (Fisheries biologist and Den of the College of Natural Resources, North Carolina State University), Richard L. Knight (Professor of Wildlife Conservation, Colorado State University), and Dennis A. Schenborn (Chief of Planning and Budget for the Bureau of Fisheries Management and Habitat protection of the Wisconsin State Department of Natural Resources), Ecosystem Management: Adaptive, Community- Based Conservation is an intelligently organized, "reader friendly" textbook which is an ideal resource and teaching tool for discusses a wide range of environmental issues including: genetic diversity in ecosystem management, landscape-level conservation, single-species land management, the skill and art of keeping fragile ecosystems in balance; methodology, examples, and mathematical models. An astute presented and detailed college-level text, Ecosystem Management is a welcome and highly recommended contribution to Environmental Studies reference collections in general, and Ecosystem Management curriculum reading lists in particular.