Ensuring greater Yellowstone's future [[electronic resource] ] : choices for leaders and citizens / / Susan G. Clark

• Autore: Clark Susan G. <1942->
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, Conn., : Yale University Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (x, 303 p.))
• Disciplina: 333.7809787/5
• Soggetto topico: Landscape protection - Yellowstone National Park; Ecology - Yellowstone National Park; Environmental policy - Yellowstone National Park
• Soggetto geografico: Yellowstone National Park Forecasting; Yellowstone National Park Region Forecasting; Yellowstone National Park Management; Yellowstone National Park Environmental conditions; Yellowstone National Park Region Environmental conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Leaders and Policy in a Contested Landscape -- 2 Challenges Facing Greater Yellowstone -- 3 Leaders-Problem Solving -- 4 Leaders-Cooperation and Demonstrations -- 5 Overall Assessment-Leaders, Bureaucracy, and Context -- 6 Improving Leadership -- 7 Improving Management Policy -- 8 Transitioning Toward Sustainability -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How can environmental problems be solved when they cross boundaries and involve diverse people? What kind of leadership and institutions will bring success? From experience in the greater Yellowstone region, Susan G. Clark looks at leadership and policy in managing natural resources. She assesses accomplishments toward sustainability over the past forty years.Focusing on The Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee, a federal group of heads of national parks, national forests, and national wildlife refuges, Clark identifies fundamental leadership tasks needed, explains what changes in skill will be required, and makes many practical recommendations for every leader, citizen, and group involved with large-scale conservation anywhere worldwide.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ensuring greater Yellowstone's future
• ISBN: 1-282-35206-7; 9786612352065; 0-300-14503-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456866903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II