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Natural experiments : ecosystem-based management and the environment / Judith A. Layzer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American and comparative environmental policyPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 365 pages) : mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262278010
  • 0262278014
  • 9781435665361
  • 1435665368
  • 0262122987
  • 9780262122986
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Natural experiments.DDC classification:
  • 333.95 22
LOC classification:
  • QH75 .L367 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Why Ecosystem-Based Management? -- 3. Setting Aside Habitat for Songbirds, Salamanders, and Spiders in Austin, Texas -- 4. Saving San Diego's Coastal Sage Scrub -- 5. Restoring South Florida's River of Grass -- 6. Averting Ecological Collapse in California's Bay-Delta -- 7. Conserving the Sonoran Desert in Pima County, Arizona -- 8. Re-creating Central Florida's Meandering Kissimmee River -- 9. Making History in the Mono Basin -- 10. Ecosystem-Based Management and the Environment.
Summary: This systematic assessment of seven prominent initiatives - in Texas, California, Florida and Arizona - evaluates the effectiveness of ecosystem-based management at protecting the environment. The author concludes that projects that set goals based on stakeholder collaboration are less likely to result in environmental improvement.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-351) and index.

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This systematic assessment of seven prominent initiatives - in Texas, California, Florida and Arizona - evaluates the effectiveness of ecosystem-based management at protecting the environment. The author concludes that projects that set goals based on stakeholder collaboration are less likely to result in environmental improvement.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Why Ecosystem-Based Management? -- 3. Setting Aside Habitat for Songbirds, Salamanders, and Spiders in Austin, Texas -- 4. Saving San Diego's Coastal Sage Scrub -- 5. Restoring South Florida's River of Grass -- 6. Averting Ecological Collapse in California's Bay-Delta -- 7. Conserving the Sonoran Desert in Pima County, Arizona -- 8. Re-creating Central Florida's Meandering Kissimmee River -- 9. Making History in the Mono Basin -- 10. Ecosystem-Based Management and the Environment.

English.

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