Ecological assessments and implementing ecosystem management Challenges, opportunities, and the road ahead

摘要: Ecosystem management is a recent policy alternative proposed to address new generation of environmental issues characterized by greater sociocultural, political, economic, and biophysical complexity. For most ecosystem efforts, scientific uncertainty lack data commonly are listed among the significant stumbling blocks success (Yaffee et al., 1996). As we move beyond boundaries safe known into uncharted territory management, at both grand small scales, compass that science can provide assist decision making frequently missing element (Lee, 1993). Ecological assessments fundamental precisely because they tool pointing way giving direction difficult decisions made in face great (Lackey, 1998).