| Description |
1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261). |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ecosystem management.
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Ecosystem management. |
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Environmental policy.
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Environmental policy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Roe, Emery.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Eeten, Michel van. Ecology, engineering, and management. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 0195139682 (DLC) 2001021711 (OCoLC)46641916 |
| ISBN |
9781601196804 (electronic book) |
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1601196806 (electronic book) |
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9780195349948 (electronic book) |
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0195349946 (electronic book) |
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1280834862 |
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9781280834868 |
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0195139682 |
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9780195139686 |
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