Current sustainability challenges–including biodiversity loss, pollution and land-use change–
require new ways of understanding, acting in and caring for the landscapes we live in. The …

Les forêts mixtes boréales (BMWs) sont les écosystèmes forestiers les plus productifs et les
plus diversifiés des forêts boréales nord-américaines. Une bonne compréhension de la …

Population ecology has matured to a sophisticated science with astonishing potential for
contributing solutions to wildlife conservation and management challenges. And yet, much …

In the increasingly wicked and messy world in which natural resource planners function,
traditional rational-comprehensive planning processes seem to function poorly …

This book has been updated to reflect what may be one of the biggest changes in public
lands management since multiple use: ecosystem management. The federal agency …

Ecological assessments and monitoring programs often rely on indicators to evaluate
environmental conditions. Such indicators are frequently developed by scientists, expressed …

Compared with conventional forest management, sustainable forest management (SFM) is
interdisciplinary, heterogeneous, less hierarchical, and more socially accountable. The …

Social conflicts over the management of natural resources are increasing. An informative
example of these conflicts is the debate over the management of the USDA Forest Service …

An integrated model, combining spatial wildlife population and timber harvest and growth
models, was developed to explore tradeoffs between the likelihood of persistence of a …

Abstract In the United States and around the world, scientists and practitioners have debated
the definition and merits of ecosystem management as a new approach to natural resource …