Bringing stakeholders, scientists, and managers together through an integrated ecosystem assessment process
✍ Scribed by Yvonne L. deReynier; Phillip S. Levin; Noriko L. Shoji
- Book ID
- 104041756
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 285 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0308-597X
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✦ Synopsis
For decades, the scientific community has conducted essential background research and developed appropriate modeling tools in support of an ecosystem-based approach to natural resource management. Resource managers and the public, however, lack a clear roadmap for working with scientists to move beyond the traditional single-species approach. With current management processes so strongly focused on working in a species-by-species framework, there are entrenched cultural and institutional challenges to shifting those processes toward ecosystem-based management. We propose using the integrated ecosystem assessment process to both develop new management ideas for a particular ecosystem, and to help shift public policy processes and perceptions to embrace ecosystem approaches to management.