The Science of Open Spaces Theory and Practice for Conserving Large, Complex Systems /

• Main Author: Curtin, Charles (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2015.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Earth Sciences.; Earth Sciences, general.

This publication proposes that we return to “first principles”--fundamental physical laws of the universe--and think about complex systems from the ground up based on modern scientific theory backed up by practical experience.  Since the days of the American Frontier, our management policies have pr...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Integrating conservation and complexity through the  perspective of place
• 2. experiments in post-normal science in southwestern  Rangelands
• 3. Experiments in the Governance of Maine’s coastal  fisheries
• 4. Conceptual Under pinnings for preserving open  spaces
• 5. Resilience and the socioecological synthesis
• 6. Practical aspects of sustaining open spaces.