Resource and Environmental Management

Author: Mitchell
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This book enhances readers' theoretical knowledge and practical skills in resource and environmental management. It provides in-depth discussions on fundamental concepts such as variability, complexity, uncertainty, and sudden shocks to better understand and grasp their characteristics. It systematically focuses on future scenario planning, ecosystem approaches, impact assessment, adaptive environmental management, partnerships and stakeholders, local knowledge systems, gender and development, emergency response, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and environmental justice. The book cites numerous case study materials from developed and developing countries worldwide. It invites scholars, government officials, non-governmental organizations, and consultants from around the world to share their experiences and insights. This book reveals urgent issues in the practice of natural resource and environmental management, elaborates on a series of basic concepts and theories for addressing these issues, and introduces relevant case studies that apply these theories to solve practical problems. The author argues that resource and environmental management is essentially the management of diverse stakeholders in resource and environmental use, making this field with cultural, complex, uncertain, and sudden challenges. After providing in-depth discussions on the fundamental nature and significance of resources and the environment, the author systematically examines a series of strategies, approaches, and methods to address them, including future scenario planning, ecosystem approaches, impact assessment, adaptive environmental management, partnership and stakeholder approaches, local knowledge systems, gender and development. Practical cases are used to enhance understanding in many of these discussions. Many of the concepts and theories in the book are cutting-edge topics in related international fields, with limited awareness in China. They offer valuable insights for China's future resource and environmental management. This book is suitable for researchers, educators, managers, planners, graduate students, and senior undergraduate students in fields such as natural resource and environmental management, geography, policy science, regional development, and public administration. It is also an important and engaging read for non-professionals concerned with resource and environmental issues.