Multi-party Litigation: The Strategic Context

Wayne V. McIntosh, Cynthia L. Cates

UBC Press, 2009 - Political Science - 280 pages

Sustainable management is a problem for countries that depend on natural resources. Forests contain much of the world's biodiversity and offer significant renewable resources with a potentially small ecological and carbon footprint. Yet as global demand for forest products increases, conserving biodiversity has become more urgent and challenging.--Forestry and Biodiversity makes the case for adaptive management--a structural approach to learning by doing--to sustain biodiversity in managed forests. It draws on the theory and principles of conservation biology and forest ecology and illustrates them, and the challenges they pose, through a practical, real-world study of a 1.1 million hectare commercial operation i a coastal temporate rainforest.--"This book is an essential read and reference for all forest stakeholders who are committed to integrated management of forests for sustained economic, environmental, and cultural values. So much written about this subject is theoretical, but this book shares major lessons from a large-scale real-world effort to implement such management and to assess its effectiveness."--Jerry Franklin, University of Washington--Fred L. Bunnell is professor emeritus of forestry and conservation biology at the University of British Columbia. Glen B. Dunsworth is a forest ecology and conservation biology consultant.

About the author

Wayne V. McIntosh is a political science professor, associate chair, and Director of Undergraduate Studies with the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Cynthia L. Cates is a political science professor with the Department of Political Science, Towson University, Towson, MD.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Multi-party Litigation: The Strategic Context; Law and society series
• Authors: Wayne V. McIntosh, Cynthia L. Cates
• Publisher: UBC Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0774815973, 9780774815970
• Length: 280 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / International Relations / General; Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections; Political Science / Political Process / Political Parties