Contested Issues of Ecosystem Management

by Corona,Piermaria

• ISBN13: 9781560220671
• ISBN10: 1560220678
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-01-21
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Contested Issues of Ecosystem Management provides park rangers, forestry students and personnel with a unique discussion of the premise, goals, and concepts of ecosystem management. You will discover the need for you to maintain and enhance the quality of the environment on a global scale while meeting the current and future needs of an increasing human population. This unique book includes ways to tackle the fundamental causes of environmental degradation so you will be able to respond to the problem and not merely the symptoms.

Table of Contents

Conceptual Issues of Ecosystem Management	1	(20)
Boris Zeide
Radically Contested Assertions in Ecosystem Management	21	(14)
Robert T. Lackey
Population Growth, Environmental Resources and Global Food	35	(10)
David Pimentel
Marcia Pimentel
Avenues to Ecosystem Balance in a Human World	45	(14)
James D. Arney
Forest Management on a Natural Basis: The Fundamentals and Case Studies	59	(14)
Orazio Ciancio
Piermaria Corona
Francesco Iovino
Giuliano Menguzzato
Roberto Scotti
Biodiversity, Genetic Diversity, and Protected Areas in Turkmenistan	73	(16)
Habibulla I. Atamuradov
Galina N. Fet
Victor Fet
Raul Valdez
William R. Feldman
Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Restoration: The Role of Fire	89	(8)
James P. Barnett
Informational Analysis of Forest Landscape Spatial Heterogeneity	97	(10)
Carlo Ricotta
Piermaria Corona
Marco Marchetti
Place of Intensive Forestry in Ecosystem Management	107	(10)
David R. Bower
Ecosystem Management in Tropical Timber Plantations: Satisfying Economic, Conservation, and Social Objectives	117	(18)
R.J. Keenan
D. Lamb
J. Parrotta
J. Kikkawa
Pacific Spirit-The Forest Reborn	135	(22)
Patrick Moore
Sustainable Environment Through Calibrated Resource Taxation	157	(2)
Fedor Semevski
Boris Zeide
Index	159