An approach to forest management that seeks to include economic, ecologic and social components.
An approach to maintaining or restoring the composition, structure, and function of natural and modified ecosystems for long-term sustainability. Scientists base this approach on a vision of desired future conditions.
The buzz word to make deforestation sound palatable to the general public. USFS definition: "An ecological approach to natural resource management to assure productive, healthy ecosystems by blending social, economic, physical, and biological needs and values."
The management paradigm adopted by all federal agencies managing public lands, involving a long-term stewardship approach to maintaining the lands in their natural state.
The process of sustaining ecosystem integrity through partnerships and interdisciplinary teamwork. Ecosystem-based management focuses on three interacting dimensions: the economy, the social community, and the environment. Ecosystem-based management seeks to sustain ecological health while meeting economic needs and human uses.
(1) The skillful use of ecological, economic, social, and managerial principles in managing ecosystems to produce, restore, or sustain ecosystem integrity and desired conditions, uses, products, values, and services over the long-term. (2) A process of land and resource management that emphasizes the care and stewardship of an area to ensure that human activities will be carried out to protect natural processes, natural biodiversity, and ecological integrity.
use of ecosystem concepts to predict the effects of management actins on the ecosystem and to guide management planning and actions.
A strategy or plan to manage ecosystems to provide for all associated organisms, as opposed to a strategy or plan for managing individual species.
An integration of ecological, economic, and social goals in a unified systems approach to resource management.
the use of an ecological approach to achieve productive resource management by blending social, physical, economic and biological needs and values to provide healthy ecosystems.
An integrated, flexible approach to management of biological and physical environments-conducted through the use of tools such as planning, land acquisition, environmental education, regulation, and pollution prevention-designed to maintain, protect, and improve the natural, managed, and human communities.
management designed to maintain the interactions between all of the species in a given area and their non-living environment.
a land management approach that considers the biological needs of a large area of land; management for the health of the whole ecosystem by providing for the preservation and restoration of plants, animals, streams, forests, soil, and wetlands; management for the preservation and restoration of the biological elements while also providing for things important to people, such as food and fiber crops and recreation Humans are also part of the ecosystem, and their values and concerns are also considered. Ecosystem management is the skillful, integrated use of ecological knowledge at various scales to produce desired resource values, products, services, and conditions in ways that also sustain the diversity and productivity of ecosystems.
the process of land-use decision making and land-management practice that takes into account the full suite of organisms and processes that characterize and comprise the ecosystem. It is based on the best understanding currently available as to how the ecosystem works. Ecosystem management includes a primary goal to sustain ecosystem structure and function, a recognition that ecosystems are spatially and temporally dynamic, and acceptance of the dictum that ecosystem function depends on ecosystem structure and diversity. The whole-system focus of ecosystem management implies coordinated land-use decisions.
The use of an ecological approach in land management to sustain diverse, healthy, and productive ecosystems. Ecosystem management is applied at various scales to blend long-tem societal and environmental values in a dynamic manner that may be adapted as more knowledge is gained thought research and experience. ( FSEIS Feb. 94, Glossary-5)