Overview
- Helps natural resource specialists and protected area managers routinely use concepts and tools by providing conceptual examples
- Professional resource managers will be provided with an entry into the literature in this rapidly evolving concept
- The application and the utility, of the methods introduced and discussed are illustrated through a series of case studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Natural resource managers face a complex decision-making environment characterized by the potential occurrence of rapid and abrupt ecological change. These abrupt changes are poorly accommodated by traditional natural resource planning and decision-making processes. As recognition of threshold processes has increased, contemporary models of ecological systems have been modified to better represent a broader range of ecological system dynamics. Key conceptual advances associated with the ideas of non-linear responses, the existence of multiple ecological stable states and critical thresholds are more likely the rule than the exception in ecological systems. Once an ecological threshold is crossed, the ecosystem in question is not likely to return to its previous state. There are many examples and a general consensus that climatic disruptions will drive now stable systems across ecological thresholds.
This book provides professional resource managers with a broad general decision framework that illustrates the utility of including ecological threshold concepts in natural resource management. It gives an entry into the literature in this rapidly evolving concept, with descriptions and discussion of the promising statistical approaches for threshold detection and demonstrations of the utility of the threshold framework via a series of case studies.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Application of Threshold Concepts in Natural Resource Decision Making
Editors: Glenn R. Guntenspergen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-8041-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8040-3Published: 08 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5155-0Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-8041-0Published: 07 February 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 324
Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Applied Ecology, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis