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Setting the environmental policy agenda: The case of ecosystem management

Author
Haeuber R.
Journal/Series
Natural Resources Journal | Vol. 36(1); 1 - 28; 28 p.
Date
1996
Source
IUCN (ID: ANA-058565)
Publisher | Place of publication
University of New Mexico School of Law | Albuquerque, NM, USA
Language
English
Country/Territory
United States of America
Subject
Land & soil
Keyword
Land-use planning
Abstract

Ecosystem management is a recent policy alternative propsed to address a new generation of environmental issues. At least 18 federal agencies currently are exploring the concept of ecosystem management and its implications for their activities. Each of the major regulatory, land and natural resource management agencies has drafted policy guidance regarding ecosystem management. And, federal sector efforts are just one layer of a wider nationwide phenomenon: similar activities are occuring at state and local government levels, as well as within the non-governmental sector. This paper addresses two questions: What is ecosystem management? Will ecosystem management endure as a land and resource management policy?