Integrating ecology into natural resource management policy

Environmental Management

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 289-296

  Brown, Joel R ^a   Macleod, Neil D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Nonequilibrium ecology; Soft systems methodology

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; LAND USE; MANAGEMENT; POLICY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; REVIEW;

ECOLOGY ROLE; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT APPROACH; NATURAL RESOURCES; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

CONSERVATION; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; MANAGEMENT; NATURAL RESOURCES; PROBABILITY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; NONEQUILIBRIUM ECOLOGY; PHYSICAL LAWS; PRODUCTION FUNCTION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SEMINATURAL ECOSYSTEMS; SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGIES; SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 0029662382     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01203838     Document Type: Review

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