January 31 - ecosystem services and human well-being

Shanahan, et al. 2003. Family meals and disparities in global ecosystem dependency. Three examples: Ghana, Russia and Sweden

Knox County Comprehensive Plan Update January 2006 Please read pp 4-31, 75-76, 85-89. Question: Are ecosystem services adequately considered in this local planning document?

February 8 - dynamics of ecosystem services: drivers and appropriate scale

Cash & Moser. 2000. Linking global and local scales: desiging dynamic assessment and management processes

Mattson & Angermeier. 2007. Integrating human impacts and ecological integrity into a risk-based protocol for conservation planning

Portela & Radmacher. 2001. A dynamic model of patterns of deforestation and their effect on the ability of the Brazilian Amazonia to provide ecosystem services

February 15 - analysis and responses

"Orr's Laws" 2004 Conservation Biology

Response to "Orr's Laws"

Orr's rebuttal to the response

A case study

February 21 - coastal ecosystems

Managing coastal resources in the 21st century. 2007. Weinstein et al., Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 43–48.

MA - Coastal Systems (Agardy et al.). http://www.maweb.org/documents/document.288.aspx.pdf

February 28 - coastal protection

Reading for response

Shallat: Holding Louisiana

Tibbetts: Louisiana's Wetlands: A Lesson in Nature Appreciation

Day, et al.: Implications of global climatic change . . . restoration of the Mississippi delta

Bowman: Legal perspectives on dam removal

Background reading (optional)

An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century (U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy): Section 4 - "Living on the Edge"

An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century (U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy): Response from Ohio

March 21 - alternative management strategies

Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Collapse

Ecosystem based management

Ecosystem vs species based management

Seal removal North Atlantic Cod

Collapse and recovery of the yellowtail flounder fishery