| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Roots of Federal Ecosystem Management; 1. The Intellectual Context of Ecosystem Management; 2. The Policy Context of Ecosystem Management; 3. Yellowstone: The Ecosystem Management Laboratory; Part II. Adopting Ecosystem Management; 4. Resistance and Acceptance: Ecosystem Management in the Bush Administration; 5. Putting Ecosystem Management to the Test in the Clinton Administration; 6. The Northwest Forest Plan: Substantive Ecosystem Management |
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7. ICBEMP: Procedural Ecosystem ManagementConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover |
| Summary |
For the better part of the last century, ""preservation"" and ""multi-use conservation"" were the watchwords for managing federal lands and resources. But in the 1990s, amidst notable failures and overwhelming needs, policymakers, land managers, and environmental scholars were calling for a new paradigm: ecosystem management. Such an approach would integrate federal land and resource management across jurisdictional boundaries; it would protect biodiversity and economic development; and it would make federal management more collaborative and less hierarchical. That, at any rate, was the idea |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ecosystem management -- Yellowstone National Park Region
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Ecosystem management -- West (U.S.)
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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Ecosystem management
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West United States
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United States -- Yellowstone National Park Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015020376 |
| ISBN |
9780700621644 |
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0700621644 |
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