scholarly journals Flood regime typology for floodplain ecosystem management as applied to the unregulated Cosumnes River of California, United States

Ecohydrology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. e1817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison A. Whipple ◽  
Joshua H. Viers ◽  
Helen E. Dahlke
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ecosystem Management ◽  
Flood Regime ◽  
Cosumnes River

The Paradox Resolved: A Different Case Study and the Argument Summarized

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel J. G. van Eeten ◽  
Emery Roe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Ecosystem Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Service Reliability ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Study Approach

From the outset, the book’s chief policy question has resolved around the problem of how to manage. As this was addressed in the preceding chapters, a new question arises: what are the implications for policies governing the meeting of the twofold management goal of restoring ecosystems while maintaining service reliability? This chapter provides our answer to that question by means of a new case study. It sums up the book’s argument and recasts ecosystem management and policy for ecologists, engineers, and other stakeholders. The best way to draw out the policy-relevant ramifications of our framework and the preceding management insights is to apply them to a different ecosystem. The case-study approach has served us well in contextualizing management recommendations without, we believe, compromising their more general application to ecosystem management. Our analysis of the major land-use planning controversy in the Netherlands underscores the wider applicability of this book’s arguments for both management and policy. What follows is put more briefly because it builds on the analysis of and recommendations for the Columbia River Basin, San Francisco Bay-Delta, and the Everglades. Why the Netherlands? There are human-dominated ecosystems substantially different from those found in the United States, many of which are more densely populated. They have nothing remotely like “wilderness,” but instead long histories of constructing and managing “nature.” The Netherlands is one such landscape. Not only is the landscape different, it is also important to note that the context for ecosystem management is set by different political, social, and cultural values. Sustainability is a much more dominant value in the European context than currently in the United States. Case-by-case management, while also appropriate for zones of conflict outside the United States, now has to deal with the fact that there is a tension between its call for case-specific indicators and the use of more general sustainability indicators in Europe. In die Netherlands, for example, sustainable housing projects are designed and assessed not only in terms of specific indicators but also in light of the “factor 20 increase in environmental efficiency” needed to achieve sustainability.

Ecosystem Management Along Ephemeral Rivers: Trading Off Socio-Economic Water Supply and Vegetation Conservation under Flood Regime Uncertainty

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Arnold ◽  
S. Attinger ◽  
K. Frank ◽  
P. Baxter ◽  
H. Possingham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Ecosystem Management ◽  
Flood Regime ◽  
Ephemeral Rivers

Attitudes Toward Ecosystem Management in the United States, 1992-1998

2001 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 471-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N. Bengston ◽  
George Xu ◽  
David P. Fan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ecosystem Management ◽  
The United States

Ecosystem Management in the United States. An Assessment of Current Experience

1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 556
Author(s):  
David K. Mann ◽  
Steven L. Yaffee ◽  
Ali F. Phillips ◽  
Irene C. Frentz ◽  
Paul W. Hardy Sussanne M. Maleki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ecosystem Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Experience
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