Natural Resource Management Reimagined
Using the Systems Ecology Paradigm
John C Moore editor Robert G Woodmansee editor Dennis S Ojima editor Laurie Richards editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:11th Mar '21
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£99.99(9781108497558)
Brings scientists, policy makers, land and water managers and citizen stakeholders together to resolve natural resource and environmental problems.
Human communities need holistic and systematic approaches to resolving complex, real-world environmental and natural resource problems threatening the Earth's well-being. The systems ecology paradigm provides that approach by bringing scientists, policy makers and land managers together in collaborative settings to analyse and resolve issues.The Systems Ecology Paradigm (SEP) incorporates humans as integral parts of ecosystems and emphasizes issues that have significant societal relevance such as grazing land, forestland, and agricultural ecosystem management, biodiversity and global change impacts. Accomplishing this societally relevant research requires cutting-edge basic and applied research. This book focuses on environmental and natural resource challenges confronting local to global societies for which the SEP methodology must be utilized for resolution. Key elements of SEP are a holistic perspective of ecological/social systems, systems thinking, and the ecosystem approach applied to real world, complex environmental and natural resource problems. The SEP and ecosystem approaches force scientific emphasis to be placed on collaborations with social scientists and behavioral, learning, and marketing professionals. The SEP has given environmental scientists, decision makers, citizen stakeholders, and land and water managers a powerful set of tools to analyse, integrate knowledge, and propose adoption of solutions to important local to global problems.
'Natural Resource Management Reimagined is … a welcome addition to my personal library and it is highly recommended for institutional libraries.' Peter F. Scogings, African Journal of Range and Forage Science
ISBN: 9781108740135
Dimensions: 227mm x 152mm x 22mm
Weight: 760g
460 pages