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The Science of Open Spaces

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 polici...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Curtin, Charles (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
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Online Access:Texto Completo
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.