Wild Forests: Conservation Biology And Public PolicyIsland Press, 1994 - 300 Seiten Wild Forests presents a coherent review of the scientific and policy issues surrounding biological diversity in the context of contemporary public forest management. The authors examine past and current practices of forest management and provide a comprehensive overview of known and suspected threats to diversity. In addition to discussing general ecological principles, the authors evaluate specific approaches to forest management that have been proposed to ameliorate diversity losses. They present one such policy -- the Dominant Use Zoning Model incorporating an integrated network of "Diversity Maintenance Areas" -- and describe their attempts to persuade the U.S. Forest Service to adopt such a policy in Wisconsin. Drawing on experience in the field, in negotiations, and in court, the authors analyze the ways in which federal agencies are coping with the mandates of conservation biology and suggest reforms that could better address these important issues. Throughout, they argue that wild or unengineered conditions are those that are most likely to foster a return to the species richness that we once enjoyed. |
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... scientific analysis " [ 40 C.F.R. § 1500.1 ( b ) ] and “ scientific integrity " ( 40 C.F.R. § 1502.24 ) in the analytical process . And in the event an agency felt it could not obtain needed information to predict foreseeable im- pacts ...
... scientific forestry , " there is now a basis for applying a much broader set of scientific disciplines to the understanding of forests . Systematics , population biology , population genetics , and community and ecosystem ecology are ...
... scientific understanding and a blow against scientifically based decision making — the heart of NEPA and NFMA . To purposefully ignore or suppress scientific understanding as we develop plans to manage the public forests therefore ...
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Forests Then and Now | 3 |
Shadows in the Forest | 19 |
The Myth of Hearts Content | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Wild Forests: Conservation Biology And Public Policy William S. Alverson,Don Waller,Walter Kuhlmann Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2013 |