Intro -- Contents -- Acronyms -- 1 The Paradox of the Rising Demand for Both a Better Environment and More Reliable Services -- 2 The Paradox Introduced: Concepts and Cases -- 3 Adaptive Management in a High Reliability Context: Hard Problems, Partial Responses -- 4 Recasting the Paradox through a Framework of Ecosystem Management Regimes -- 5 Ecosystems in Zones of Conflict: Partial Responses as an Emerging Management Regime -- 6 Ecosystems in Zones of Conflict: The Case for Bandwidth Management -- 7 The Paradox Resolved: A Different Case Study and the Argument Summarized -- Appendix: Modeling in the CALFED Program -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

This book presents an overview and introduction to adaptive ecosystem management, for an audience of environmental policymakers, scientists, engineers, planners, and administrators. Adaptive management is the process of implementing policy decisions through scientifically driven management experiments. These experiments test predictions with policy implications, and the results are then used to improve or optimize the policy outcomes. Van Eeten and Roe outline the principles and procedures recommended for adaptive ecosystem management, and then present an extensive case study and demonstration of the approach through examination of the CALFED Program. CALFED, covering the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento River Delta is the largest integrative program for ecosystem restoration and management in the US, and is an ideal testing ground for case-by-case resource management across a heterogeneous landscape, where population, resources and the environment are in conflict.

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