Natural Resource Management Reimagined

Using the Systems Ecology Paradigm

• Author(s): Robert G. Woodmansee, John C. Moore, Dennis S. Ojima, Laurie Richards,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 460
• ISBN_10: 1108497551
  ISBN_13: 9781108497558
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Economic History , Business & Economics / Environmental Economics , Nature / Ecology , Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection , Nature / Natural Resources , Science / Life Sciences / Biology , Science / Life Sciences / Botany , Science / Life Sciences / Ecology , Science / Life Sciences / Biological Diversity , Science / Global Warming & Climate Change , Technology & Engineering / Environmental / General ,

Description:... 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.