Ecology, engineering, and management: reconciling ecosystem rehabilitation and service reliability

Abstract

Acronyms. 1. The Paradox of the Rising Demand for Both a Better Environment and More Reliable Services. 2. The Paradox Introduced: Concepts and Cases. 3. Adaptive Management in a High Reliability Context: Hard Problems, Partial Responses. 4. Recasting the Paradox through a Framework of Ecosystem Management Regimes. 5. Ecosystems in Zones of Conflict: Partial Responses as an Emerging Management Regime. 6. Ecosystems in Zones of Conflict: The Case for Bandwidth Management. 7. The Paradox Resolved: A Different Case Study and the Argument Summarized. Appendix: Modeling in the CALFED Program. Notes