Harvest of Fish and Wildlife

<p><strong><em>Harvest of Fish and Wildlife: New Paradigms for Sustainable Management</em></strong> unites experts in wildlife and fishery sciences for an interdisciplinary overview of harvest management. This book presents unique insights for embracing the complete social-ecological system to ensure a sustainable future. It educates users on evolutionary and population dynamics; social and political influences; hunter and angler behavior; decision processes; impacts of regulations; and stakeholder involvement.</p><p>Features:</p><ul> <li>Written by twenty-four teams of leading scientists and managers.</li> <li>Promotes transparent justification for fishing and hunting regulations.</li> <li>Provides examples for integrating decision making into management.</li> <li>Emphasizes creativity in management by integrating art and science.</li> </ul><p>This book appeals to population biologists evolutionary biologists and social scientists. It is a key resource for on-the-ground managers and research scientists developing harvesting applications.</p><p>As the book’s contributors explain:</p><ul> <li>“Making decisions that are robust to uncertainty…is a paradigm shift with a lot of potential to improve outcomes for fish and wildlife populations.” –Andrew Tyre and Brigitte Tenhumberg</li> <li>“Temporal shifts in system states…must somehow be anticipated and dealt with to derive harvest policies that remain optimal in the long term.” –Michael Conroy</li> <li>“Proactive effective management of sportspersons…will be essential in the new paradigm of harvest management.” –Matthew Gruntorad and Christopher Chizinski</li> </ul>