Hardbound. A highly regarded work on ecosystem management published by Elsevier Science in association with the US Forest Service and the World Resources Institute.
Ecological Stewardship addresses the six ecosystem management themes of: Shifting Public Values, Expectations and Law; Social and Cultural Dimensions; Humans as Agents of Ecological Changes; Biological and Ecological Dimensions; Economic Dimensions and Information Collection and Evaluation.
Fully illustrated with colour photographs throughout, Volume I synthesizes the key scientific and management findings and conclusions of the six topics originally covered in the three-volume set. A CD ROM, comprising the full text of the original three volumes, perfectly complements this summary volume.
Background In December 1995, the US Forest Service, in collaboration with five Department of Interior agencies and NOAA and with financial support from a dozen private foundations, c