Salamanders vs. the Simpsons: Community-based ecosystem monitoring
Public concern for the environment and endangered species is growing. Canadian society has a more involved relationship with nature and natural resources than we did 50, or even 25 years ago. Ironically, this explosion of ecological awareness comes precisely at a time when governments at all levels...
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ftvirginiatec:oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/66451 2024-05-19T07:40:27+00:00 Salamanders vs. the Simpsons: Community-based ecosystem monitoring Gayton, D. Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebase 2003 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10919/66451 en_US eng Kamloops, BC: FORREX-Forest Research Extension Partnership http://www.forrex.org/publications/jem/ISS15/vol3_no1_art1.pdf 1545 BC Journal of Ecosystems and Management 3(1): 1-5 1488-4666 1545_Salamanders_vs_the_Simpsons.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10919/66451 In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Copyright 2003 FORREX Forest Research Extension Partnership Ecosystem management Biological assessment Semiarid zones Temperate zones Ecosystem Biodiversity Best management practices Forest management Biological indicators Forest ecosystems Sustainable forestry Conservation Forestry Forests Resource management tools Natural resource management Biodiversity conservation Article - Refereed Text 2003 ftvirginiatec 2024-05-01T00:44:07Z Public concern for the environment and endangered species is growing. Canadian society has a more involved relationship with nature and natural resources than we did 50, or even 25 years ago. Ironically, this explosion of ecological awareness comes precisely at a time when governments at all levels are scaling back on their involvement in monitoring the environment. Monitoring programs funded through incremental or non-base budgets, combined with the steady pace of government ministry reorganizations, often result in short-term, fragmented, and ineffective government ecological monitoring. In a new phenomenon known as community-based ecosystem monitoring (CBEM), citizen groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), and individual citizens monitor a local species, ecosystem, or ecosystem process. CBEM can be viewed as government downloading of costs or as an historic taking-back of social responsibility. Benefits of CBEM include data acquisition, increased public awareness of nature and ecosystems, and opportunities for environmentalists to see decision-making first-hand. British Columbia is fertile ground for CBEM in that it has a well-developed NGO community, a stunning variety of ecological and natural resource issues, and a government that is currently downsizing its "dirt ministries." CBEM has a long-established precedent in the First Nations tradition of close and daily observation of nature. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations VTechWorks (VirginiaTech) |
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Public concern for the environment and endangered species is growing. Canadian society has a more involved relationship with nature and natural resources than we did 50, or even 25 years ago. Ironically, this explosion of ecological awareness comes precisely at a time when governments at all levels are scaling back on their involvement in monitoring the environment. Monitoring programs funded through incremental or non-base budgets, combined with the steady pace of government ministry reorganizations, often result in short-term, fragmented, and ineffective government ecological monitoring. In a new phenomenon known as community-based ecosystem monitoring (CBEM), citizen groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), and individual citizens monitor a local species, ecosystem, or ecosystem process. CBEM can be viewed as government downloading of costs or as an historic taking-back of social responsibility. Benefits of CBEM include data acquisition, increased public awareness of nature and ecosystems, and opportunities for environmentalists to see decision-making first-hand. British Columbia is fertile ground for CBEM in that it has a well-developed NGO community, a stunning variety of ecological and natural resource issues, and a government that is currently downsizing its "dirt ministries." CBEM has a long-established precedent in the First Nations tradition of close and daily observation of nature. |
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Salamanders vs. the Simpsons: Community-based ecosystem monitoring |
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Kamloops, BC: FORREX-Forest Research Extension Partnership |
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