Ecology Engineering and Management

Ecology Engineering and the Paradox of Management is the first book that addresses and reconciles what many take to be the core paradox facing environmental decision-makers and stakeholders: How do they restore the environment while at the same time provide ever more services reliably from that environment including clean air water and energy for more and more people? The book provides a conceptual framework empirical case analyses and organizational proposals to resolve the paradox be it in the US Europe or elsewhere. Thus Ecology Engineering and the Paradox of Management has multiple audiences. First are the key professions involved in the protection and improvement of ecosystems and in the provision and delivery of services from those ecosystems. These include ecologists (and other natural scientists such as conservation biologists climatologists forest scientists and toxicologists) engineers (as well as hydrologists environmental engineers civil engineers and line operators) modeling and gaming experts managers planners and power agriculture and recreation communities. Another audience includes university researchers in ecology conservation biology engineering the policy sciences and resource management. Those interested in interdisciplinary approaches in these fields will also find the book especially helpful. Finally those interested in the Everglades the Columbia River Basin San Francisco Bay-Delta and the Green Heart of western Netherlands will find new insights here as the book provides a detailed examination of the paradox in each of these cases.