Principles of natural resource stewardship: resilience-based management in a changing world

This is a textbook for Natural Resource Management, Resource Conservation andEcosystem Management, as well as other related or more specialized courses. Most textbooks on natural resource and ecosystem management are dominated by a steady-state view that interprets change as gradual and incremental and disregards interactions across scales. Management implementation of steady-state theory and policies tends to invest in controlling a few selected ecosystem processes, at the expense of long-term social-ecological resilience - i.e., the capacity of the system to cope with surprise and abrupt changes. Loss of resilience makes systems more vulnerable to both expected and unforeseen changes. Textbook for Natural Resource Management and related courses First textbook to take a resilience-based approach to the ecology and management of resources. It focuses on ecosystems ability to adapt to change Chapin is the author of Principles of Torrestrial Ecosystem Ecology and Plant Physiological Ecology Providesa framework for managing resources in a world dominated by uncertainty and change INDICE: A Framework for Understanding Change.- Managing Ecosystems Sustainably.- Human vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience.- Dynamics of integrated social-ecological systems.- Conservation and livelihoods: Sustaining and restoring the cultural connections to land.- Landscape stewardship: Discovering the missing connections to sustain vulnerable systems.- Forest systems: Living with long-term change.- Drylands: Coping with uncertainty, thresholds, and changes in state.- Lakes and rivers: Managing connections across temporal and spatial scales.- Oceans and estuaries: Managing the commons.- Food production systems: integrating technology sustainably.- Urban and suburban landscapes: Manging the built environment.- Planet Earth: Sustaining the life support systems of the planet.- Strategies for managing uncertainty and change.- Summary and Synthesis.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-73032-5
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés