Reconciling ecosystem rehabilitation and service reliability mandates in large technical systems: Findings and implications of three major US ecosystem management initiatives for managing human-dominated aquatic-terrestrial ecosystems

Ecosystems

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 509-528

  Roe, Emery ^a,b   Van Eeten, Michel ^a,b  

^a MILLS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Bandwidth management; Ecosystem rehabilitation; High reliability; Large technical systems; Service reliability

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036763152     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-002-1015-6     Document Type: Article

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