| Description |
1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
1 The Paradox of the Rising Demand for Both a Better Environment and More Reliable Services -- 2 The Paradox Introduced: Concepts and Cases -- 3 Adaptive Management in a High Reliability Context: Hard Problems, Partial Responses -- 4 Recasting the Paradox through a Framework of Ecosystem -- Management Regimes -- 5 Ecosystems in Zones of Conflict: Partial Responses as an Emerging Management Regime -- 6 Ecosystems in Zones of Conflict: The Case for Bandwidth Management -- 7 The Paradox Resolved: A Different Case Study and the Argument Summarized |
| Summary |
This book presents an introduction, overview and extension of ecosystem management and environmental restoration principles and applications. It develops a new framework and approach to improving the environment through extensive case studies and analysis of environmental rehabilitation initiatives in the San Francisco Bay-Delta, Florida Everglades, Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest, and the Green Heart region of western Netherlands. The book's comparative and; integrative approach, with its grounding in ecology, engineering and management, will appeal to those working wherever population, resources and environment are in conflict |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261) |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ecosystem management.
|
|
Environmental policy.
|
|
environmental policy.
|
|
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity.
|
|
NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
|
|
Ecosystem management
|
|
Environmental policy
|
|
Ecosystemen.
|
|
Milieubeleid.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Roe, Emery, author.
|
| ISBN |
9781601196804 |
|
1601196806 |
|
9780195349948 |
|
0195349946 |
|
1280834862 |
|
9781280834868 |
|
9786610834860 |
|
6610834865 |
|
