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

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.

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

Global Linkages to Community-Based Ecosystem Management in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 35-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nels Johnson ◽  
Jill Belsky ◽  
Victor Benavides ◽  
Martin Goebel ◽  
Ann Hawkins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ecosystem Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Global Linkages

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

Anger, Fear, & Sadness: How Emotions Could Help Us End a Pandemic of Racism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Catagnus ◽  
Brandon Umphrey ◽  
Annette Griffith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Behavior Analysis ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
The United States ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Experience

Racism, recently referred to as another kind of pandemic, affects the health and safety of diverse individuals within the United States and around the world. Emotions are a powerful and integral aspect of the experience of racism; however, within the field of behavior analysis, we have been hesitant to acknowledge emotion or explore how it relates to behavior and behavioral contingencies. As a result, the scope of our understanding of emotion is limited. To better understand the current experience and perception of practitioners in the field of behavior analysis, as they relate to emotion and racism, a brief survey was conducted. Findings indicated that while many may be comfortable discussing emotion and with the display of emotions for themselves and others, this was not the case for everyone. Further, many were uncomfortable discussing racism. While participants believed the emotions of racism are important and should be addressed by the field of behavior analysis, they think the field has not done enough work in this area. The results of the study lead to several recommendations, including additional anti-racism research and the acknowledgment of emotional experience, and also for how individuals can better understand, and maybe reduce, the negative emotions associated with oppression.

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