January 31 - ecosystem services and human well-being
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
February 15 - analysis and responses
"Orr's Laws" 2004 Conservation Biology
Orr's rebuttal to the response
February 21 - coastal ecosystems
MA - Coastal Systems (Agardy et al.). http://www.maweb.org/documents/document.288.aspx.pdf
February 28 - coastal protection
Reading for response
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): Response from Ohio
March 21 - alternative management strategies
Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Collapse
Ecosystem vs species based management
Seal removal North Atlantic Cod
Collapse and recovery of the yellowtail flounder fishery