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Ecosystem management is an approach that attempts to involve all stakeholders in defining sustainable alternatives for the interactions of people and the environments in which they live. The inadequacy of the traditional resource management paradigm to deal with multiple scales and larger areas that encompass both public and private lands coupled with growing concern over decreasing biodiversity gave rise to its development. It is based on a collaboratively developed vision of desired future ecosystem conditions that integrates ecological, economic, and social factors affecting an area that is defined by multiple boundaries including ecological and political ones. It is a goal-driven approach to restoring and sustaining healthy ecosystems and their functions and values while supporting communities and their economic base.
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Szaro, R.C., Sexton, W.T. (1998). Ecosystem Management as an Approach for Sustaining Forests and Their Biodiversity. In: Sassa, K. (eds) Environmental Forest Science. Forestry Sciences, vol 54. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5324-9_19
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