Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing WorldF Stuart Chapin III, Gary P. Kofinas, Carl Folke The world is undergoing unprecedented changes in many of the factors that determine its fundamental properties and their in- ence on society. These changes include climate; the chemical c- position of the atmosphere; the demands of a growing human population for food and ?ber; and the mobility of organisms, ind- trial products, cultural perspectives, and information ?ows. The magnitude and widespread nature of these changes pose serious challenges in managing the ecosystem services on which society depends. Moreover, many of these changes are strongly in?uenced by human activities, so future patterns of change will continue to be in?uenced by society’s choices and governance. The purpose of this book is to provide a new framework for n- ural resource management—a framework based on stewardship of ecosystems for human well-being in a world dominated by unc- tainty and change. The goal of ecosystem stewardship is to respond to and shape change in social-ecological systems in order to s-tain the supply and opportunities for use of ecosystem services by society. The book links recent advances in the theory of resilience, sustainability, and vulnerability with practical issues of ecosystem management and governance. The book is aimed at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students of natural resource management as well as professional managers, community leaders, and policy makers with backgrounds in a wide array of d- ciplines, including ecology, policy studies, economics, sociology, and anthropology. |
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adaptive capacity adaptive management agement agricultural approaches areas assessments Berkes biodiversity biofuels challenges Chapin Chapter cities climate change coastal common-pool resources communities complex complex adaptive systems components conservation crop cultural cycle decline degradation depends diversity drylands dynamics Earth System ecological systems economic ecosys ecosystem services ecosystem stewardship effects enhance environment environmental eutrophication example feedbacks fish fisheries forest freshwater function future global goals governance groups habitat harvest Holling human ical impacts important increase inffuence institutions interactions land landscape learning levels livelihoods long-term markets ment Millennium Ecosystem Assessment monitoring natural natural capital needs networks nomic nutrients occur Ojibwa organizations Panarchy plants population potential problems processes reduce regime shifts regional resilience resource management response role scales slow variables social social-ecological systems society soil species Springer Science+Business Media strategies sustainability tems threshold tion tive transformation urban users vulnerability well-being