Integrating Landscape Ecology Into Natural Resource Management

Integrating Landscape Ecology Into Natural Resource Management
Author: Jianguo Liu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2002-08
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780521784337

The rapidly increasing global population has dramatically increased the demands for natural resources and has caused significant changes in quantity and quality of natural resources. To achieve sustainable resource management, it is essential to obtain insightful guidance from emerging disciplines such as landscape ecology. This text addresses the links between landscape ecology and natural resource management. These links are discussed in the context of various landscape types, a diverse set of resources and a wide range of management issues. A large number of landscape ecology concepts, principles and methods are introduced. Critical reviews of past management practices and a number of case studies are presented. This text provides many guidelines for managing natural resources from a landscape perspective and offers useful suggestions for landscape ecologists to carry out research relevant to natural resource management. In addition, it will be an ideal supplemental text for graduate and advanced undergraduate ecology courses.

Chesapeake Bay Blues

Chesapeake Bay Blues
Author: Howard R. Ernst
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2003-04-02
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0742573036

The Chesapeake Bay restoration effort has been touted as the nation's premier environmental restoration program. Yet the Bay and the living systems it supports remain in dismally poor condition, with fisheries in decline and drinking water in danger. This book addresses the Chesapeake Bay as a political problem and reveals how the political process has worked against the interests of science, the public, and environmental advocates all at once. Author Howard Ernst shows that the forces driving environmental degradation are sown deeply into the political soul of America, posing menacing challenges to those fighting to restore large ecosystems like the Chesapeake Bay. The book serves as a political roadmap for the future, suggesting how a different course of policy action is needed to 'Save the Bay.'

A model for success?

A model for success?
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2004
Genre: Environmental monitoring
ISBN: