Gary Meffe; Larry Nielsen; Richard L Knight sku-24201646: EM

Ecosystem Management: Adaptive, Community-Based Conservation is a paperback listed under Gary Meffe; Larry Nielsen; Richard L Knight in All Books, sku-24201646. It addresses the scientific knowledge and the stakeholder interests involved in natural resource management, arguing that technical knowledge alone is insufficient and that resource management education and textbooks have not kept pace with the field's changing demands.

Detailed landscape scenarios let students practice solving problems that involve conflicting interests. The book applies ecology and conservation biology to practical concerns while examining the ecological, socioeconomic and institutional conditions in which managers work.

Chapters include problem-based exercises, boxes and figures with examples, perspectives, definitions, summaries and learning tools, and essays by practitioners with experience applying ecosystem management. An accompanying instructor's manual gives an overview and guidance for designing a course. The book grew out of a course the authors taught for the U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service at its National Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. They delivered 20 offerings to more than 600 natural resource professionals and drew on that experience for the book's perspective on professional resource management.