Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Folke, Carl. (Editor), Kofinas, Gary P. (Editor), Chapin, F. Stuart. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Endangered ecosystems.; Environmental law.; Environmental management.; Ecology.; Environmental toxicology.; Nature Conservation.; Environment.; Environmental Management.; Ecotoxicology.; Ecosystems.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73033-2

Natural resource management is entering a new era in which rapid environmental and social changes inevitably alter ecosystems and the benefits they provide to society. This textbook provides a new framework for natural resource managementa framework based on stewardship of ecosystems for ecological...

Table of Contents:

• A Framework for Understanding Change
• Managing Ecosystems Sustainably
• Human vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience
• Dynamics of integrated social-ecological systems
• Conservation and livelihoods: Sustaining and restoring the cultural connections to land
• Landscape stewardship: Discovering the missing connections to sustain vulnerable systems
• Forest systems: Living with long-term change
• Drylands: Coping with uncertainty, thresholds, and changes in state
• Lakes and rivers: Managing connections across temporal and spatial scales
• Oceans and estuaries: Managing the commons
• Food production systems: integrating technology sustainably
• Urban and suburban landscapes: Manging the built environment
• Planet Earth: Sustaining the life support systems of the planet
• Strategies for managing uncertainty and change
• Summary and Synthesis.