Greater (and Better) Ecosystem Management

The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: challenges for regional ecosystem management.

An adaptive management approach is necessary but not sufficient to address the long-term challenges of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). Adaptive management, in turn, has its own particular challenges, of which we focus on two: science input, and stakeholder engagement. In order to frame our discussion and subsequent recommendations, we place the current management difficulties into thei...

Disease Ecology and Wildlife Health in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Greater confidence in management of food allergy by parents predicts better quality of life

Food allergy is often a life-long condition and has been shown to have a significant impact on the quality of life of the patient and parents due to the complexity of managing food allergy to avoid potentially life threatening reactions (Cummings et al., 2010). Parental confidence or selfefficacy in managing food allergy for their child has not been investigated in this population. This study a...

Better management for better schools

Climate Change and Ecosystem Management

This article addresses the implications of rapid and uncertain ecological change, and global climate change in particular, for reserve oriented and restoration oriented ecosystem management. I argue for the following conclusions: (1) rapid and uncertain ecological change undermines traditional justifications for reserve oriented and restoration oriented ecosystem management strategies; (2) it r...