Bioregional assessments : science at the crossroads of management and policy / edited by K. Norman Johnson [and others] ; foreword by Jerry F. Franklin.

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [1999], ©1999.

xiii, 398 : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction / Margaret Herring -- Learning from the past and moving to the future / Jack Ward Thomas -- Stepping back: assessing for understanding in complex regional systems / Lance H. Gunderson -- History and assessments: punctuated nonequilibrium / John C. Gordon -- Perspectives on scientists and science in bioregional assessments / Frederick J. Swanson and Sarah Greene -- A political context model for bioregional assessments / Hanna J. Cortner, Mary G. Wallace, and Margaret A. Moote -- Forest ecosystem management assessment team assessment / K. Norman Johnson...[et al.] -- Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River basin assessments / Henry A. Regier...[et al.] -- Everglades-South Florida assessments / John C. Ogden...[et al.] -- Northern forest lands assessments / Perry Hagenstein...[et al.] -- Southern California natural community conservation planning / Dennis D. Murphy -- Interior Columbia basin ecosystem management project / Thomas M. Quigley...[et al.] -- Sierra Nevada ecosystem project / Don C. Erman...[et al.] -- Understanding bioregional assessments / K. Norman Johnson and Margaret Herring

Includes bibliographic references and index