1st Edition
Sustaining Rocky Mountain Landscapes Science, Policy, and Management for the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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Prato and Fagre offer the first systematic, multi-disciplinary assessment of the challenges involved in managing the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem (CCE), an area of the Rocky Mountains that includes northwestern Montana, southwestern Alberta, and southeastern British Columbia. The spectacular landscapes, extensive recreational options, and broad employment opportunities of the CCE have made it... Read more
Part I. Introduction
1. Searching for Ecosystem Sustainability
2. Crown of the Continent Ecosystem: Profile of a Treasured Landscape
Part II. Social Dimensions
3. Native Peoples and Archaeology of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
4. Economic Growth and Landscape Change
5. Sustaining Wildland Recreation: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities
Part III. Biophysical Dimensions
6. Alpine Ecosystem Dynamics and Change: A View from the Heights
7. Conserving Biodiversity
8. Aquatic Ecosystem Health
9. Conserving Water Resources
Part IV. Ecosystem Dynamics
10. Paleo-Perspectives on Climate and Ecosystem Change
11. Modeling and Monitoring Biophysical Dynamics and Change
12. Ecosystem Responses to Global Climate Change
13. Fire Regimes and Their Management
Part V. Management Issues and Challenges
14. Cumulative Effects Analysis and the Crown Managers Partnership
15. Transboundary Conservation and the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
16. Adaptive Ecosystem Management
17. Challenges of Managing Glacier National Park in a Regional Context
18. Resolving Transboundary Conflicts: The Role of Community-based Advocacy
19. Achieving Ecosystem Sustainability
Biography
Tony Prato is a professor of ecological economics in the Division of Applied Social Sciences, and co-director of the Center for Agricultural, Resource and Environmental Systems at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dan Fagre is a research ecologist and global change research coordinator at the USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center in West Glacier, Montana.
'A timely, large-scale exposition about the natural and human forces that shape the CCE. The authors expertly indicate opportunities to maintain benefits and mitigate environmental damage in the region.' Donald M. McLeod, University of Wyoming 'The natural world is fast deteriorating from human activities. What can be done? A lot, as it turns out . . . Prato and Fagre apply the latest science to one of the largest areas of wilderness in the lower 48 states and Canada. If you are a land manager, hunter, recreationist, academic, or environmentalist - if you love and care about the outdoors - you need this book.' Ben Gadd, Author of Handbook of the Canadian Rockies 'A definitive work . . . By examining issues at regional to subregional scales, this volume informs resource management across geographic and institutional boundaries. This is good science with applications to both management and policy.' David L. Peterson, U.S. Forest Service
