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Renewable Natural Resources

Science and Policy Seminar @ Davidson College

Readings

Course readings may be found on the Moodle site; below is a list of many of the readings that we use in this class.

Acheson, James M. 2006. Institutional failures in resource management. Annual Review of Anthropology. 35:117-134. doi: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.35.081705.123238
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.anthro.35.081705.123238

Arkema KK, Abramson SC, Dewsbury BM (2006) Marine ecosystem-based management: from characterization to implementation. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4(10): 525–532.  

Berkes F, Colding J, Folke C (2000) Rediscovery of traditional ecological knowledge as adaptive management. Ecological Applications 10(5):1251-1262.

Cardinale BJ, Duffy EJ, Gonzalez A, Hooper DU, Perrings C, Venail P, Narwani A, Mace GM, Tilman D, Wardle DA, Kinzig AP, Daily GC, Loreau M, Grace JB, Larigauderie A, Srivastava D, Naeem S (2012) Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity. Nature 486:59–67. doi:10.1038/nature11148.

Cooley H (2015) California agricultural water use: key background information. http://pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2015/04/CA-Ag-Water-Use.pdf. The Pacific Institute.

Coulston JW, Reams GA, Wear DN, Brewer CK (2014) An analysis of forest land use, forest land cover and change at policy-relevant scales. Forestry 87:267-276.

Eckhardt L, Sayer MAS, Imm D (2010) State of pine decline in the Southeastern United States.  Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 34(3):138-141.

Fernandes L et al. (2009) A process to design a network of marine no-take areas: Lessons from the Great Barrier Reef. Ocean and Coastal Management. 52:439-447.

Grorud-Colvert K, Lester SE, Airamé S, Neeley E, Gaines SD (2010) Communicating marine reserve science to diverse audiences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(43):18306-18311. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0914292107
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/43/18306.full.pdf+html 

Hutchings PA, Kingsford M, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2008) The Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and Management.  CSIRO, Collingwood, Australia.

Kappel C (2011) Ecosystem-based management. Retrieved from http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/51cbed8c7896bb431f692c52

Lee, K. N. 1999. Appraising adaptive management. Conservation Ecology 3(2): 3. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol3/iss2/art3/ or http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol3/iss2/art3/inline.html for version with art

LoSchiavo AJ, Best RG, Burns RE, Gray S, Harwell MC, Hines EB, McLean AR, St. Clair T, Traxler S, Vearil JW (2013) Lessons learned from the first decade of adaptive management in comprehensive Everglades restoration. Ecology and Society 18(4): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06065-180470 

Pacific Institute (2015) CaliforniaDrought.org. Current Conditions. http://www.californiadrought.org/drought/current-conditions/

Pacific Institute (2015) Impacts of California’s Ongoing Drought: Agriculture: http://pacinst.org/publication/impacts-of-californias-ongoing-drought-agriculture/

Perrings C, Naeem S, Ahrestani FS, Bunker DE, Burkill P, Canziani G, Elmqvist T, Fuhrman JA, Jaksic FM, Kawabata Z, Kinzig A, Mace GM, Mooney H, Prieur-Richard A-H, Tschirhart J, Weisser W (2011) Ecosystem services, targets, and indicators for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9(9): 512–520.  

Rockmann C, van Leeuwen J, Goldsborough D, Kraan M, Piet G (2015) The interaction triangle as a tool for understanding stakeholder interactions in marine ecosystem based management. Marine Policy 52:155–162. doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2014.10.019

Samhouri JF, Haupt AJ, Levin PS, Link JS, Shuford R (2014) Lessons learned from developing integrated ecosystem assessments to inform marine ecosystem-based management in the USA. ICES Journal of Marine Science 71:1205–1215. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fst141

Stephens SL, Ruth LW (2005) Federal forest-fire policy in the United States. Ecological Applications 15(2):532-542.

United Nations Environment Programme – World Conservation (2011) Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, Australia. Retrieved from http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/51cbede87896bb431f694a79

 

2016 Case Studies

  • Red Wolf
  • Fracking
  • Grazing Rights
  • Catawba River
  • Chesapeake Bay
  • Cod

Spring 2016

Tuesday/Thursday 12:15- 1:30pm
Chambers 3106

This interdisciplinary course will focus on developing a scientific understanding of natural resources and their use by humans, and how renewable resources are then used, overused, managed and conserved by humans. We will primarily consider modern methods of resource management, including adaptive and ecosystem-based management.

We will address natural resource and environmental issues from an ecosystem and a policy perspective. Through case studies, readings, class discussions, and knowledge construction, you will learn more about ecosystem ecology and management policies and approaches, and then apply your knowledge to identify management principles that are consistent with a more holistic ecosystem approach to resource management. You will apply your knowledge to develop a case study of use and management of one natural resource.
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