Today's natural resource managers must be able to navigate among the complicated interactions and conflicting interests of diverse stakeholders and decisionmakers. Technical and scientific knowledge, though necessary, are not sufficient. Science is merely one component in a multifaceted world of decision making. And while the demands of resource management have changed greatly, natural resource education and textbooks have not. Until now.
Ecosystem Management represents a different kind of textbook for a different kind of course. It offers a new and exciting approach that engages students in active problem solving by using detailed landscape scenarios that reflect the complex issues and conflicting interests that face today's resource managers and scientists. Focusing on the application of the sciences of ecology and conservation biology to real-world concerns, it emphasizes the intricate ecological, socioeconomic, and institutional matrix in which natural resource management functions, and illustrates how to be more effective in that challenging arena.
Each chapter is rich with exercises to help facilitate problem-based learning. The main text is supplemented by boxes and figures that provide examples, perspectives, definitions, summaries, and learning tools, along with a variety of essays written by practitioners with on-the-ground experience in applying the principles of ecosystem management.
Accompanying the textbook is an instructor's manual that provides a detailed overview of the book and specific guidance on designing a course around it. Download the manual (http://islandpress.org/dms-static/49e33f3b-7922-4a16-bc7f-16cbd724c1ee/instructors-manual-ecosystem-mgmt.pdf) here .
Ecosystem Management grew out of a training course developed and presented by the authors for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at its National Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. In 20 offerings to more than 600 natural resource professionals, the authors learned a great deal about what is needed to function successfully as a professional resource manager. The book offers important insights and a unique perspective dervied from that invaluable experience.

Meffe, Gary, Nielsen, Larry, Knight, Richard L., Schenborn, Dennis

Gary K. Meffe; Richard L. Knight; Larry Nielsen; Dennis Schenborn

Gary K. Meffe ... [et al.]

Shearwater Books

Washington, D.C, District of Columbia, 2002

United States, United States of America

1 edition, October 1, 2002

Edition Unstated, FR, 2002

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This text aims to engage students in active problem-solving using the detailed landscape scenarios that face the modern resource manager and scientist. It emphasizes the intricate ecological, socioeconomic and institutional matrix in which natural resource management functions

YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH THIS BOOK AND THE SUCCESS of this course largely will revolve around and depend upon the landscape scenarios.

Provides essays, exercises, summaries, learning tools, and definitions focusing on the issues surrounding ecosystem management.

2023-06-28