Science and Policy in Natural Resource Management
by
Helen E. Allison - Richard J. Hobbs
This 2006 book identifies the need for changes to human-created institutions responsible for natural resource management.
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Complete description
This book was first published in 2006. Despite many well-intentioned policies and changes to management practices, the world's natural resources continue to decline. The roles and interplay between science and policy in the regional broadacre agriculture landscape are examined here, offering readers a thorough understanding of the complex interactions that occur across spatial scales to produce the regional-scale impacts. The fundamental causes of resource degradation, social decline and environmental pollution are addressed, examining the cross-scale drivers from the individual farm level to the global level of commodity systems. Broadacre agriculture is a common land use throughout all continents of the world and is driven by the same type of dynamics, and this case study of the Western Australia agricultural region can be used to clearly demonstrate the principles for other agricultural systems. Aimed at academics, ranging from researchers through to policy analysts, this book will inspire innovation and action in sustainable natural resource management.
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General info
Publisher & Imprint:
Cambridge University Press
City:
Cambridge
Pages:
266
More info:
height 228 mm
width 152 mm
weight 565 gr
thickness 19 mm
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey:(DC22) 333.7
Library of Congress Subject: Natural resources--Government policy
Departments:
Management of land & natural resources;
Record updated at:
14 March, 2013
time:
19:09
Summary
Science and Policy in Natural Resource Management
List of illustrations; List of tables; Foreword C. S Holling; 1. Introduction; 2. Historical and policy context; 3. Natural resource degradation: a resistant problem of the twentieth century; 4. The epistemology of natural resource management of the twentieth century; 5. A contemporary epistemology and framework for natural resource management of the twenty-first century; 6. Model conceptualisation of the Western Australian agricultural region: Part 1. Resilience analysis; 7. Model conceptualisation of the Western Australian agricultural region: Part 2. System dynamics analysis; 8. Synthesis; Appendices; Glossary; Acronyms.
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