Natural Resource Management Reimagined

Using the Systems Ecology Paradigm

Robert G. Woodmansee, John C. Moore, Dennis S. Ojima, Laurie Richards

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781108497558
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108679862
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

The Systems Ecology Paradigm (SEP) incorporates humans as integral parts of ecosystems and emphasizes issues that have significant societal relevance such as grazing land, forestland, and agricultural ecosystem management, biodiversity and global change impacts. Accomplishing this societally relevant research requires cutting-edge basic and applied research. This book focuses on environmental and natural resource challenges confronting local to global societies for which the SEP methodology must be utilized for resolution. Key elements of SEP are a holistic perspective of ecological/social systems, systems thinking, and the ecosystem approach applied to real world, complex environmental and natural resource problems. The SEP and ecosystem approaches force scientific emphasis to be placed on collaborations with social scientists and behavioral, learning, and marketing professionals. The SEP has given environmental scientists, decision makers, citizen stakeholders, and land and water managers a powerful set of tools to analyse, integrate knowledge, and propose adoption of solutions to important local to global problems.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• 1 The Systems Ecology Paradigm
• 2 Environmental and Natural Resource Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
• 3 Evolution of Ecosystem Science to Advance Science and Society in the Twenty-First Century
• 4 Five Decades of Modeling Supporting the Systems Ecology Paradigm
• 5 Advances in Technology Supporting the Systems Ecology Paradigm
• 6 Emergence of Cross-Scale Structural and Functional Processes in Ecosystem Science
• 7 Evolution of the Systems Ecology Paradigm in Managing Ecosystems
• 8 Land/Atmosphere/Water Interactions
• 9 Humans in Ecosystems
• 10 A Systems Ecology Approach for Community-Based Decision Making: The Structured Analysis Methodology
• 11 Environmental Literacy: The Systems Ecology Paradigm
• 12 Organizational and Administrative Challenges and Innovations
• 13 Where to From Here? Unraveling Wicked Problems
• Index