Making Transparent Environmental Management Decisions: Applications of the Ecosystem Management Decision Support System

✍ Scribed by Keith M. Reynolds, Paul F. Hessburg, Patrick S. Bourgeron (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 344
• Series: Environmental Science and Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since 1997, the Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system has been used around the world to support environmental analysis and planning in many different application areas, and it has been applied over a wide range of geographic scales, from forest stands to entire countries. An extensive sampling of this diversity of applications is presented in section 2, in which EMDS application developers describe the varied uses of the system. These accounts, together with the requisite background in section 1, provide valuable practical insights into how the system can be applied in the general domain of environmental management.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
An Overview of the Ecosystem Management Decision-Support System....Pages 3-22
NetWeaver....Pages 23-33
Criterium DecisionPlus....Pages 35-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Use of EMDS in Conservation and Management Planning for Watersheds....Pages 63-91
The Integrated Restoration and Protection Strategy of USDA Forest Service Region 1: A Road Map to Improved Planning....Pages 93-110
Evaluating Wildfire Hazard and Risk for Fire Management Applications....Pages 111-133
Landscape Evaluation and Restoration Planning....Pages 135-174
Ecological Research Reserve Planning....Pages 175-203
Forest Conservation Planning....Pages 205-226
Wildlife Habitat Management....Pages 227-251
Planning for Urban Growth and Sustainable Industrial Development....Pages 253-276
Measuring Biological Sustainability via a Decision Support System: Experiences with Oregon Coast Coho Salmon....Pages 277-298
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
EMDS 5.0 and Beyond....Pages 301-313
Synthesis and New Directions....Pages 315-332
Back Matter....Pages 333-337

✦ Subjects

Environmental Management; Nature Conservation