Systemic Management: Sustainable Human Interactions with Ecosystems and the Bios
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- ISBN
- 9780199567591
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
019956759X
ISBN-13
9780199567591
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038260074
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Publication Name
Systemic Management : Sustainable Human Interactions with Ecosystems and the Biosphere
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Life Sciences / Ecology, Environmental Conservation & Protection, General, Ecology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
28.2 Oz
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Width
7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
"This is an extraordinarily important book; it calls for a major conceptual shift away from how we currently view our relationship with the biosphere and forcefully makes the case that this shift is necessary...the book is well written and its case extraordinarily well supported by a myriad ofexamples and by an enormous reference list." --John Emlen, Northwest Science 2009
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
304.2
Table Of Content
PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Systemic Management: What and Why2. Variation Among Species: Observing Limits3. Selective Extinction and Speciation4. Why Conventional Management Does Not Work5. Why Systemic Management Works6. Humans: a Species Beyond the LimitsEpilogueBibliographySubject Index
Synopsis
Systemic Management describes a holistic, objective, and universally applicable form of management, providing a framework for addressing environmental challenges such as global warming, emergent diseases, deforestation, overpopulation, the extinction crisis, pollution, over-fishing, and habitat destruction. Its goals are the consistently sustainable relationships between humans and ecosystems, between humans and other species, and between humans and the biosphere. This book presents a convincing argument that these goals, and the means to achieve them, can be inferred from empirical information. It describes how comparisons between humans and other species reveal patterns that can serve to guide management toward true sustainability, i.e. ways that are empirically observed to work in natural systems. This objective approach has rarely been possible in conventional management because sustainability is invariably undermined by conflicting human values.Systemic Management is presented as a specialized process of pattern-based decision-making that avoids the inconsistency, subjectivity and error in current management practice. It clearly demonstrates how mimicking nature's empirical examples of sustainability can circumvent anthropocentric tendencies to overuse/misuse human values in management, and illustrates the science best suited for achieving sustainability through examples of research that address specific management questions., 'Systemic Management' describes a holistic, objective and universally applicable form of management, providing a framework for addressing environmental challenges such as global warming, emergent diseases, deforestation, overpopulation, the extinction crisis, pollution, over-fishing, and habitat destruction., Systemic Management describes a holistic, objective, and universally applicable form of management, providing a framework for addressing environmental challenges such as global warming, emergent diseases, deforestation, overpopulation, the extinction crisis, pollution, over-fishing, and habitat destruction. Its goals are the consistently sustainable relationships between humans and ecosystems, between humans and other species, and between humans and the biosphere. This book presents a convincing argument that these goals, and the means to achieve them, can be inferred from empirical information. It describes how comparisons between humans and other species reveal patterns that can serve to guide management toward true sustainability, i.e. ways that are empirically observed to work in natural systems. This objective approach has rarely been possible in conventional management because sustainability is invariably undermined by conflicting human values. Systemic Management is presented as a specialized process of pattern-based decision-making that avoids the inconsistency, subjectivity and error in current management practice. It clearly demonstrates how mimicking nature's empirical examples of sustainability can circumvent anthropocentric tendencies to overuse/misuse human values in management, and illustrates the science best suited for achieving sustainability through examples of research that address specific management questions.
LC Classification Number
GF75
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