Our systems are now restored following recent technical disruption, and we’re working hard to catch up on publishing. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. Find out more

Recommended product

Popular links

Popular links


Natural Resource Management Reimagined

Natural Resource Management Reimagined

Natural Resource Management Reimagined

Using the Systems Ecology Paradigm
Robert G. Woodmansee, Colorado State University
John C. Moore, Colorado State University
Dennis S. Ojima, Colorado State University
Laurie Richards, Colorado State University
April 2021
Paperback
9781108740135

    The Systems Ecology Paradigm (SEP) incorporates humans as integral parts of ecosystems and emphasizes issues that have significant societal relevance such as grazing land, forestland, and agricultural ecosystem management, biodiversity and global change impacts. Accomplishing this societally relevant research requires cutting-edge basic and applied research. This book focuses on environmental and natural resource challenges confronting local to global societies for which the SEP methodology must be utilized for resolution. Key elements of SEP are a holistic perspective of ecological/social systems, systems thinking, and the ecosystem approach applied to real world, complex environmental and natural resource problems. The SEP and ecosystem approaches force scientific emphasis to be placed on collaborations with social scientists and behavioral, learning, and marketing professionals. The SEP has given environmental scientists, decision makers, citizen stakeholders, and land and water managers a powerful set of tools to analyse, integrate knowledge, and propose adoption of solutions to important local to global problems.

    • Commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) at Colorado State University (CSU) and its founder, George M. Van Dyne
    • Addresses real world, complex problems such as, impacts of climate change, local to global carbon dynamics, human altered nitrogen dynamics and biodiversity
    • Presents the Systems Ecology Paradigm (SEP) as a powerful methodology that is indispensable for resolving real world, complex problems

    Reviews & endorsements

    ‘Natural Resource Management Reimagined is … a welcome addition to my personal library and it is highly recommended for institutional libraries.’ Peter F. Scogings, African Journal of Range and Forage Science

    See more reviews

    Product details

    April 2021
    Paperback
    9781108740135
    460 pages
    227 × 152 × 22 mm
    0.76kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • 1. The system ecology paradigm Robert G. Woodmansee, John C. Moore and Dennis S. Ojima
    • 2. Environmental and natural resource challenges in the 21st century Dennis S. Ojima and Robert G. Woodmansee
    • 3. Evolution of ecosystem science to advance science and society in the 21st century David C. Coleman, Eldor A. Paul, Stacy Lynn and Thomas Rosswall
    • 4. Five decades of modeling supporting the systems ecology paradigm William J. Parton, Stephen J. Del Grosso, Eleanor E. Campbell, Melanie D. Hartman, Tom Hobbs, John C. Moore, David M. Swift, David S. Schimel, Dennis S. Ojima, Michael B. Coughenour, Randall B. Boone, Keith Paustian, H. Williams Hunt and Robert G. Woodmansee
    • 5. Advances in technology supporting the systems ecology paradigm David S. Schimel
    • 6. Emergence of cross-scale structural and functional processes in ecosystem science Randall B. Boone, Robert G. Woodmansee, James K. Detling, Daniel Binkley, Thomas J. Stohlgren, Monique E. Rocca, William H. Romme, Paul H. Evangelista, Sunil Kumar and Michael G. Ryan
    • 7. Evolution of the systems ecology paradigm in managing ecosystems Robert G. Woodmansee, Michael B. Coughenour, Jill Baron, Keith Paustian, William Parton, Thomas Stohlgren, William Romme, Paul H. Evangelista, Cameron Aldridge, Dennis S. Ojima, William Lauenroth, Ingrid Burke, Kathleen Galvin and Robin Reid
    • 8. Land/atmosphere/water interactions Robert G. Woodmansee, Jill Baron, Michael B. Coughenour, Wei Gao, Laurie Richards, William Parton, David S. Schimel, Keith Paustian, Stephen Ogle, Dennis S. Ojima, Richard Conant and Mathew Wallenstein
    • 9. Humans in ecosystems David M. Swift, Randall B. Boone, Michael B. Coughenour and Gregory Newman
    • 10. A systems ecology approach for community-based decision making: the Structured Analysis Methodology (SAM) Robert G. Woodmansee and Sarah R. Woodmansee
    • 11. Environmental literacy: the Systems Ecology Paradigm (SEP) Robert G. Woodmansee, John C. Moore, Gregory Newman, Paul H. Evangelista and Katherine Woodmansee
    • 12. Organizational and administrative challenges and innovations Jacob Hautaluoma, Robert G. Woodmansee, Nicole E. Kaplan, John C. Moore, Diana Wall and Clara Woodmansee
    • 13. Where to from here? unravelling wicked problems Robert G. Woodmansee, Dennis S. Ojima and Nicole E. Kaplan.
      Contributors
    • Robert G. Woodmansee, John C. Moore, Dennis S. Ojima, David C. Coleman, Eldor A. Paul, Stacy Lynn, Thomas Rosswall, William J. Parton, Stephen J. Del Grosso, Eleanor E. Campbell, Melanie D. Hartman, Tom Hobbs, John C. Moore, David M. Swift, David S. Schimel, Michael B. Coughenour, Randall B. Boone, Keith Paustian, H. Williams Hunt, James K. Detling, Daniel Binkley, Thomas J. Stohlgren, Monique E. Rocca, William H. Romme, Paul H. Evangelista, Sunil Kumar, Michael G. Ryan, Jill Baron, Keith Paustian, , William Romme, Cameron Aldridge, William Lauenroth, Ingrid Burke, Kathleen Galvin, Robin Reid, Wei Gao, Laurie Richards, Stephen Ogle, Richard Conant, Mathew Wallenstein, Gregory Newman, Sarah R. Woodmansee, Katherine Woodmansee, Jacob Hautaluoma, Nicole E. Kaplan, Diana Wall, Clara Woodmansee

    • Editors
    • Robert G. Woodmansee , Colorado State University

      Robert G. Woodmansee is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) at Colorado State University (CSU). He is also a former Program Director for Ecosystem Studies at the U.S. National Science Foundation, and a founding member of the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program. His research interests are in biogeochemistry and landscape ecology, including spatial and temporal scaling in ecosystems.

    • John C. Moore , Colorado State University

      John C. Moore is Professor and Head of the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and Director of the NREL at Colorado State University. His research interests are in the fields of soil ecology, mathematical/theoretical ecology, and the application of the theory of complex adaptive systems to teaching and learning.  His research on food web structure, function and dynamics is positioned at the interfaces of community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and evolution linking species traits and adaptions to biogeochemical cycles.

    • Dennis S. Ojima , Colorado State University

      Dennis S. Ojima is Professor in the Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Department and a Senior Research Scientist in the NREL at Colorado State University. His research addresses climate change effects on ecosystems around the world. He was involved in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and in 2007 received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the latter.

    • Laurie Richards , Colorado State University

      Laurie Richards serves as a pre-award research administrator for approximately 83 research scientists and graduate students from both the NREL and Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability (ESS). She also acts as the publication editor and manager assisting NREL/ESS scientific staff with manuscript submission to many scientific journals.