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Author Fowler, Charles W. (Charles Winsor), 1941- author.

Title Systemic management : sustainable human interactions with ecosystems and the biosphere / Charles W. Fowler
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 295 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series Oxford biology
Oxford biology.
Contents 1 Systemic management-what and why?; 2 Patterns among species: information; 3 Selective extinction and speciation; 4 Why conventional management does not work; 5 Why systemic management works; 6 Humans: a species beyond limits; Epilogue; Notes; List of Appendices; References; Author Index; Subject Index
Summary 'Systemic Management' describes a holistic, objective and universally applicable form of management, providing a framework for addressing environmental challenges such as global warming, emergent diseases, deforestation, overpopulation, the extinction crisis, pollution, over-fishing, and habitat destruction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-277) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Ecosystem management.
Ecosystem management -- Bering Sea Region -- Case studies
Conservation of natural resources.
Conservation of Natural Resources
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development.
NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
Conservation of natural resources
Ecosystem management
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Pacific Ocean -- Bering Sea Region
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191561986
0191561983