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Book SynopsisThe Systems Ecology Paradigm (SEP) incorporates humans as integral parts of ecosystems and emphasizes issues that have significant societal relevance such as grazing land, forestland, and agricultural ecosystem management, biodiversity and global change impacts. Accomplishing this societally relevant research requires cutting-edge basic and applied research. This book focuses on environmental and natural resource challenges confronting local to global societies for which the SEP methodology must be utilized for resolution. Key elements of SEP are a holistic perspective of ecological/social systems, systems thinking, and the ecosystem approach applied to real world, complex environmental and natural resource problems. The SEP and ecosystem approaches force scientific emphasis to be placed on collaborations with social scientists and behavioral, learning, and marketing professionals. The SEP has given environmental scientists, decision makers, citizen stakeholders, and land and water man
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Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The system ecology paradigm Robert G. Woodmansee, John C. Moore and Dennis S. Ojima; 2. Environmental and natural resource challenges in the 21st century Dennis S. Ojima and Robert G. Woodmansee; 3. Evolution of ecosystem science to advance science and society in the 21st century David C. Coleman, Eldor A. Paul, Stacy Lynn and Thomas Rosswall; 4. Five decades of modeling supporting the systems ecology paradigm William J. Parton, Stephen J. Del Grosso, Eleanor E. Campbell, Melanie D. Hartman, Tom Hobbs, John C. Moore, David M. Swift, David S. Schimel, Dennis S. Ojima, Michael B. Coughenour, Randall B. Boone, Keith Paustian, H. Williams Hunt and Robert G. Woodmansee; 5. Advances in technology supporting the systems ecology paradigm David S. Schimel; 6. Emergence of cross-scale structural and functional processes in ecosystem science Randall B. Boone, Robert G. Woodmansee, James K. Detling, Daniel Binkley, Thomas J. Stohlgren, Monique E. Rocca, William H. Romme, Paul H. Evangelista, Sunil Kumar and Michael G. Ryan; 7. Evolution of the systems ecology paradigm in managing ecosystems Robert G. Woodmansee, Michael B. Coughenour, Jill Baron, Keith Paustian, William Parton, Thomas Stohlgren, William Romme, Paul H. Evangelista, Cameron Aldridge, Dennis S. Ojima, William Lauenroth, Ingrid Burke, Kathleen Galvin and Robin Reid; 8. Land/atmosphere/water interactions Robert G. Woodmansee, Jill Baron, Michael B. Coughenour, Wei Gao, Laurie Richards, William Parton, David S. Schimel, Keith Paustian, Stephen Ogle, Dennis S. Ojima, Richard Conant and Mathew Wallenstein; 9. Humans in ecosystems David M. Swift, Randall B. Boone, Michael B. Coughenour and Gregory Newman; 10. A systems ecology approach for community-based decision making: the Structured Analysis Methodology (SAM) Robert G. Woodmansee and Sarah R. Woodmansee; 11. Environmental literacy: the Systems Ecology Paradigm (SEP) Robert G. Woodmansee, John C. Moore, Gregory Newman, Paul H. Evangelista and Katherine Woodmansee; 12. Organizational and administrative challenges and innovations Jacob Hautaluoma, Robert G. Woodmansee, Nicole E. Kaplan, John C. Moore, Diana Wall and Clara Woodmansee; 13. Where to from here? unravelling wicked problems Robert G. Woodmansee, Dennis S. Ojima and Nicole E. Kaplan.
