Product Description

Presents a pragmatic mixture of science, landscape ecology, ecosystem management, sociology, policy development and methods for transforming social and institutional cultures.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3269520 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 200 pages

Review
"This book is likely to become a centrepiece in the movement around the world toward thinking and acting within a bioregion."
-Dr. M.A. Shannon of Environment and Society Institute, State University of New York

From the Back Cover
Presenting a pragmatic mixture of science, landscape ecology, ecosystem management, sociology, policy development and methods for transforming social and institutional cultures. Bioregional Planning: Resource Management Beyond the New Millennium is a timely and practical guide for the analysis, planning and development of bioregional projects for a sustainable future. Significantly, this book presents the strategic actions necessary to plan for, manage and adapt to Ecologically Sustainable Development with a view beyond the new millennium and towards the next.
Postgraduates, researchers and policy makers in natural resources management, land planning, sustainable agriculture, rural sciences, ecosystem management and conservation biology will find this book captures the essence of bioregional planning succinctly and makes a compelling argument for why it is a key mechanism in the development of effective governance institutions.