Ecosystem Management
Subtitle: Applications for Sustainable Forest and Wildlife Resources
Contributors: Mark S. Boyce (Editor); Alan Haney (Editor)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: April 24, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780300069020
Subjects: Applications of Computing; Environmental Science; Management of land & natural resources; Agriculture - Forestry; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Science / General; Forest Management; Wildlife Conservation; Environmental Studies; Congresses; Ecosystem management; Sustainable forestry; Wildlife management; Nature/Ecology
Description: Contributors to this volume - leading experts who are agency personnel as well as researchers - now clarify the key elements of sound ecosystem management and offer prescriptions for implementing them.

The authors discuss definitions of ecosystem management, sustainability of ecological systems, landscape ecology, resource management at different scales and in an ecosystem context, new advances in computer technology that facilitate classification schemes for ecosystems, ecosystem restoration, biological diversity, and public concerns.

Throughout, the experts agree that management practices must be sustainable: that production of commodities, such amenities as recreation and aesthetics, and biodiversity must not be allowed to decline over time.