Why systemic management works

Fowler, Charles W.

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199540969.003.0005

Systemic Management: Sustainable Human Interactions with Ecosystems and the Biosphere

Charles W. Fowler

https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199540969.001.1

Published online:

01 May 2009

Published in print:

26 March 2009

Online ISBN:

9780191716249

Print ISBN:

9780199540969

- Copyright Page
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- About the cover
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- Dedication
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- Preface
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- Acknowledgments
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- Plates
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CHAPTER 1 Systemic management—what and why?
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CHAPTER 2 Patterns among species: information
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CHAPTER 3 Selective extinction and speciation
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4 Why conventional management does not work
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- 5.1 Systemic management adheres to the tenets of management 5.1 Systemic management adheres to the tenets of management
  - 5.1.1 Management Tenet 1: Including humans—management must be based on an understanding of humans as part of complex biological systems 5.1.1 Management Tenet 1: Including humans—management must be based on an understanding of humans as part of complex biological systems
  - 5.1.2 Management Tenet 2: Limited control—management must recognize that control over other species and ecosystems is impossible 5.1.2 Management Tenet 2: Limited control—management must recognize that control over other species and ecosystems is impossible
  - 5.1.3 Management Tenet 3: Complexity and interconnectedness—management approaches must account for reality in its complexity over the various scales of time, space, and biological organization 5.1.3 Management Tenet 3: Complexity and interconnectedness—management approaches must account for reality in its complexity over the various scales of time, space, and biological organization
    - 5.1.3.1 Systemic management uses guiding information that integrates all factors 5.1.3.1 Systemic management uses guiding information that integrates all factors
    - 5.1.3.2 Systemic management addresses the diversity of questions 5.1.3.2 Systemic management addresses the diversity of questions
    - 5.1.3.3 Systemic management takes advantage of known correlative relationships 5.1.3.3 Systemic management takes advantage of known correlative relationships
    - 5.1.3.4 Systemic management accounts for complexity through interconnectedness 5.1.3.4 Systemic management accounts for complexity through interconnectedness
  - 5.1.4 Management Tenet 4: Simultaneous consistency—management must be applied consistently among its applications and must apply simultaneously at the various levels of biological organization 5.1.4 Management Tenet 4: Simultaneous consistency—management must be applied consistently among its applications and must apply simultaneously at the various levels of biological organization
  - 5.1.5 Management Tenet 5: Avoiding the abnormal—management must undertake to ensure that processes, relationships, individuals, species, and ecosystems are within (or will return to) their normal range of natural variation 5.1.5 Management Tenet 5: Avoiding the abnormal—management must undertake to ensure that processes, relationships, individuals, species, and ecosystems are within (or will return to) their normal range of natural variation
  - 5.1.6 Management Tenet 6: Sustainability and risk—management must be risk averse and exercise precaution in achieving sustainability 5.1.6 Management Tenet 6: Sustainability and risk—management must be risk averse and exercise precaution in achieving sustainability
    - 5.1.6.1 Diversity and variability 5.1.6.1 Diversity and variability
    - 5.1.6.2 Avoiding risks 5.1.6.2 Avoiding risks
    - 5.1.6.3 Evolutionary time scales 5.1.6.3 Evolutionary time scales
  - 5.1.7 Management Tenet 7: Knowledge and information—management must be based on information 5.1.7 Management Tenet 7: Knowledge and information—management must be based on information
  - 5.1.8 Management Tenet 8: Including science—management must include scientific methods and principles in research, monitoring and assessment 5.1.8 Management Tenet 8: Including science—management must include scientific methods and principles in research, monitoring and assessment
    - 5.1.8.1 Empiricism vs. amalgamation of science 5.1.8.1 Empiricism vs. amalgamation of science
    - 5.1.8.2 Monitoring 5.1.8.2 Monitoring
    - 5.1.8.3 Models as tools for research—carefully chosen for guidance 5.1.8.3 Models as tools for research—carefully chosen for guidance
    - 5.1.8.4 Importance of social sciences 5.1.8.4 Importance of social sciences
  - 5.1.9 Management tenet 9: Goals and objectives—management must have clearly defined, measurable goals and objectives 5.1.9 Management tenet 9: Goals and objectives—management must have clearly defined, measurable goals and objectives
- 5.2 Limitations of systemic management 5.2 Limitations of systemic management
  - 5.2.1 Priorities are not clearly specified 5.2.1 Priorities are not clearly specified
  - 5.2.2 Species-level patterns (frequency distributions) are inadequately developed 5.2.2 Species-level patterns (frequency distributions) are inadequately developed
  - 5.2.3 Implementation requires addressing component questions 5.2.3 Implementation requires addressing component questions
  - 5.2.4 Acquiring information is logistically difficult 5.2.4 Acquiring information is logistically difficult
  - 5.2.5 Statistical and biodiversity measures are reference points—not magical numbers 5.2.5 Statistical and biodiversity measures are reference points—not magical numbers
- 5.3 Why extinction should be a management issue 5.3 Why extinction should be a management issue
- 5.4 A protocol for systemic management 5.4 A protocol for systemic management
  - 5.4.1 Defining the question 5.4.1 Defining the question
  - 5.4.2 Identifying characteristic(s) to be measured 5.4.2 Identifying characteristic(s) to be measured
  - 5.4.3 Finding the normal range of natural variation 5.4.3 Finding the normal range of natural variation
  - 5.4.4 Taking management action 5.4.4 Taking management action
- 5.5 The eastern Bering Sea example 5.5 The eastern Bering Sea example
- 5.6 Summary and preview 5.6 Summary and preview
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CHAPTER 6 Humans: a species beyond limits
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Epilogue
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- List of Appendices
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- References
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- Index
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CHAPTER 5 Why systemic management works

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March 2009

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This chapter describes how systemic management does more than embrace all of the nine tenets of management laid out in Chapter 1. It shows how such management not only solves the problems created by conventional management, but replaces conventional management to avoid its inherent problems. Systemic management is presented as reality-based management so that, by replacing conventional management, it accounts for complexity, and includes as one of its parts the management of human interactions and relationships with ecosystems to meet the need for more effective “ecosystem-based management” (ecosystems are part of reality). This part of the book shows systemic management to be consistent at the individual, species, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels, providing objective guidance for setting goals, making decisions, and establishing policy. This chapter defines systemic management as action to achieve normal/sustainable interactions between humans and the nonhuman.

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