Federal Ecosystem Management: Its Rise, Fall, and Afterlife

by James R. Skillen

Book Overview

For the better part of the last century, "preservation" and "multi-use conservation" were the watchwords for managing federal lands and resources. But in the 1990s, amidst notable failures and overwhelming needs, policymakers, land managers, and environmental scholars were calling for a new paradigm: ecosystem management. Such an approach would integrate federal land and resource management across jurisdictional boundaries; it would protect biodiversity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070062127X
• ISBN13: 9780700621279
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"