In North America, concepts of Historical Range of Variability are being
employed in land-management planning for properties of private
organizations and multiple government agencies. The National Park
Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S.
Forest Service, and The Nature Conservancy all include elements of
historical ecology in their planning processes. Similar approaches are
part of land management and conservation in Europe and Australia. Each
of these user groups must struggle with the added complication of rapid
climate change, rapid land-use change, and technical issues in order to
employ historical ecology effectively.
Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource
Management explores the utility of historical ecology in a management
and conservation context and the development of concepts related to
understanding future ranges of variability. It provides guidance and
insights to all those entrusted with managing and conserving natural
resources: land-use planners, ecologists, fire scientists, natural
resource policy makers, conservation biologists, refuge and preserve
managers, and field practitioners. The book will be particularly timely
as science-based management is once again emphasized in United States
federal land management and as an understanding of the potential effects
of climate change becomes more widespread among resource managers.
Additional resources for this book can be found at:
www.wiley.com/go/wiens/historicalenvironmentalvariation.
