The Ecosystem Paradigm and Environmental Risk Management

Vigerstad, T. J.; McCarty, L.S.

doi:10.1080/10807030091124518

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“…Ford & Ishii (2001) suggest that community ecologists still need to develop an integrative concept (a theoretical construction about the organization or properties of ecological systems) for ecosystems built on the synthesis of results from diverse investigations. These deficiencies have had practical implications leading environmental scientists and managers who need practical tools with predictive and explanatory power to base their environmental decision-making on quantitative descriptors based directly or indirectly on economics or environmental engineering (Vigerstad & McCarty, 2000).…”

Section: The Domination Of the Ecosystem Paradigmmentioning

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Barriers to adaptive reasoning in community ecology

McLachlan

Ladle

2010

Biological Reviews

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Recent high-profile calls for a more trait-focused approach to community ecology have the potential to open up novel research areas, generate new insights and to transform community ecology into a more predictive science. However, a renewed emphasis on function and phenotype also requires a fundamental shift in approach and research philosophy within community ecology to more fully embrace evolutionary reasoning. Such a subject-wise transformation will be difficult due to at least four factors: (1) the historical development of the academic discipline of ecology and its roots as a descriptive science; (2) the dominating role of the ecosystem concept in the driving of contemporary ecological thought; (3) the practical difficulties associated with defining and identifying (phenotypic) adaptations, and; (4) scaling effects in ecology; the difficulty of teasing apart the overlapping and shifting hierarchical processes that generate the observed environment-trait correlations in nature. We argue that the ability to predict future ecological conditions through a sufficient understanding of ecological processes will not be achieved without the placement of the concept of adaptation at the centre of ecology, with influence radiating outwards through all the related (and rapidly specializing) sub-disciplines.

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Section: The Domination Of the Ecosystem Paradigmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Barriers to adaptive reasoning in community ecology

McLachlan

Ladle

2010

Biological Reviews

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Methods and Tools in Ecotoxicology and Ecological Risk Assessment Working Group Summary

Kapustka

Goncharova

Arapis

NATO Security Through Science Series

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Managing Risk Through Marine Spatial Planning

Cormier

Kannen

2019

Maritime Spatial Planning

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Governance and management are inherently risk management processes. In a management context, risk is related to the uncertainties of achieving set objectives. Risk assessment is used to identify and analyse risks in terms of likelihood and consequences. This chapter relates risk to the process of developing a maritime spatial plan. Risk may arise from not identifying and understanding the risks perceived by stakeholders, from not having specific goals and objectives or from unclear structures and decision-making rules. For the plan itself, risks are related to not having adequate spatial allocation for activities to achieve set objectives. Risk may also be related to not having the authority needed to lead the planning process and, subsequently, implement the spatial allocation identified in the plan.

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The Ecosystem Paradigm and Environmental Risk Management

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

Barriers to adaptive reasoning in community ecology

Barriers to adaptive reasoning in community ecology

Methods and Tools in Ecotoxicology and Ecological Risk Assessment Working Group Summary

Managing Risk Through Marine Spatial Planning

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