Science and Management Topics
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Introductory Session: Laying the Foundation for an Ecological
Approach to Stewardship
Guiding Principles and Workshop Overview
The Human Ecosystem as an Organizing Concept in Ecosystem
Management
I. Understanding Values and Achieving Consensus
T1 - Public
Expectations/Shifting Values
T2 - Cultural/Social
Diversity and Resource Use
T3 - Processes for
Achieving Consensus in Achieving Land Stewardship and
Sustainability
T4 - Regional
Cooperation
II. The Historical Context for Ecologically-based
Stewardship
T5 - Human Role in
the Evolution of North American Ecosystems
T6 - Land Use Over Time
T7 - Shifting Human
Use and Expected Demands for Natural Resources
T8 - Heritage
Management
T9 - Ecosystem
Sustainability and Condition
T10 - Ecological
Restoration/Maintenance
III Understanding and Managing for Species and Ecosystem
Processes
T11 - Genetic and
Species Diversity
T12 - Ecosystem and
Landscape Diversity
T13 - Population
Viability
T14 - Ecological
Functions and Processes
T15 - Role of
Disturbance and temporal Dynamics
IV. Landscape and Social Characterization for Planning and
Management
T16 - Scale
Phenomena
T17 - Ecological
Classification
T18 - Social/Cultural
Classification
T19 - Social System
Functions and Processes
V. Economics and Uncertainty of Natural Resource
Management
T20 - Economic
Interactions at Local/Regional/National/International Scales
T21 - Ecological
Economics
T22 - Producing and
Using Natural Resources
T23 - Uncertainty
and Risk Assessment
VI. Reinventing Science and Agency Management
T24 - Evolving
Public Agency Beliefs and Behaviors Toward Ecosystem-based
Stewardship
T25 - Legal
Perspective
VII. Obtaining and Using Information
T26 - Assessments
T27 - Adaptive
Management
T28 - Decision
Support Systems/Models and Analyses
T29 - Monitoring
and Evaluation
T30 - Data
Management, Collection, and Inventory
