Wiens / Hayward / Hugh D, Safford Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-32974-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten, E-Book

In North America, concepts of Historical Range of Variability are being employed in land-management planning for properties of private organizations and multiple government agencies. The National Park Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, and The Nature Conservancy all include elements of historical ecology in their planning processes. Similar approaches are part of land management and conservation in Europe and Australia. Each of these user groups must struggle with the added complication of rapid climate change, rapid land-use change, and technical issues in order to employ historical ecology effectively.
Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management explores the utility of historical ecology in a management and conservation context and the development of concepts related to understanding future ranges of variability. It provides guidance and insights to all those entrusted with managing and conserving natural resources: land-use planners, ecologists, fire scientists, natural resource policy makers, conservation biologists, refuge and preserve managers, and field practitioners. The book will be particularly timely as science-based management is once again emphasized in United States federal land management and as an understanding of the potential effects of climate change becomes more widespread among resource managers.
Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/wiens/historicalenvironmentalvariation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiens, John A.

Hayward, Gregory D.

Hugh D, Safford, Hugh D,

Giffen, Catherine

Safford, Hugh D.

Über Autor(innen)

JohnWiens is a landscape ecologist and conservation scientist who wason the faculties of several universities in the United Statesbefore joining The Nature Conservancy as Chief Scientist in 2002.He has published over 200 scientific papers and six books, and hasconducted research in Europe, South America, and Australia as wellas the United States. He is currently Chief Conservation ScienceOfficer at PRBO Conservation Science in California and is avisiting faculty member at the University of Western Australia inPerth. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon.
HughSafford is Regional Ecologist for the USDA Forest Service PacificSouthwest Region, which includes California, Hawaii, and thePacific Territories, and a research faculty affiliate with theDepartment of Environmental Science and Policy, University ofCalifornia-Davis.
GregHayward, Regional Wildlife Ecologist with the U.S. Forest Servicein Alaska is a population ecologist with a passion for helpingresource managers understand the trade-offs associated withdifficult land management decisions. As a conservationpractitioner Greg brings an academic perspective from facultypositions at the University of Idaho and University ofWyoming. Greg's research extends from boreal owls andflying squirrels to Amur tigers and cutthroat trout with a focus onthe consequences of broad scale ecological disturbance on wildlifedynamics.
CaseyGiffen, most recently a biological scientist with the U.S. ForestService National Office in Washington, DC, specializes inregulatory compliance and land management planning. Prior toworking with the National Office she spent time in the eastern andwestern regions of the country working in forest management andnatural resource planning. She has over 15 years of experienceworking with national, regional, and forest-level land managementprograms.