Monitoring Science and Technology Symposium: Unifying Knowledge for Sustainability in the Western Hemisphere
Authors: | C. Aguirre-Bravo, Patrick J. Pellicane, Denver P. Burns, Sidney Eds..Draggan |
Year: | 2006 |
Type: | Proceedings |
Station: | Rocky Mountain Research Station |
Source: | Proceedings RMRS-P-42CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 990 p. |
Abstract
A rational approach to monitoring and assessment is prerequisite for sustainable management of ecosystem resources. This features innovative ways to advance the concept of monitoring ecosystem sustainability across spheres of environmental concern, natural and anthropogenic processes, and other hemispheric issues over a variety of spatial scales and resolution levels. Individuals and institutions, committed to mutual sustainability of ecosystem resources and human institutions, shared experiences and outlined a foundation for advancing the science and practice of monitoring and assessment at multiple geographical and organizational scales. Questions addressed in the proceedings papers include: What is the status and condition, and what are the trends in ecosystem sustainability? What are the strategies and opportunities for solving the sustainability dilemma? What are the individual and institutional responses to the sustainability challenge? Discussion during the symposium fostered the creation of coherent and unified ecosystem resource sustainability assessments and syntheses valuable to support environmental management and decision-making processes. The proceedings is a testimonial to the wealth of information presented at the symposium and a positive indicator of inter- and transdisciplinary scientific and technical success.Titles contained within Monitoring Science and Technology Symposium: Unifying Knowledge for Sustainability in the Western Hemisphere
- The Effects of Nitrogen Deposition, Ambient Ozone, and Climate Change on Forests in the Western U.S.
- Critical loads and levels: Leveraging existing monitoring data
- Monitoring Forest Condition in Europe: Impacts of Nitrogen and Sulfur Depositions on Forest Ecosystems
- Critical levels as applied to ozone for North American forests
- Canadian experiences in development of critical loads for sulphur and nitrogen
- Putting Adaptive Management into Monitoring: Retrospective and Prospective Views of Northwest Forest Plan Monitoring
- Conceptual frameworks for monitoring of high-altitude Andean ecosystems
- Remote Sensing of Saltcedar Biological Control Effectiveness
- Herpetological Communities of the Middle Rio Grande Bosque: What Do We Know, What Should We Know, and Why?
- Relevance of the Sustainable Rangelands Roundtable Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Rangeland Management to Conditions in Patagonia (Argentina)
- Groundwater, Vegetation, and Atmosphere: Comparative Riparian Evapotranspiration, Restoration, and Water Salvage
- Monitoring to Protect the Character of Individual Wildernesses
- Planning for Large Scale Habitat Restoration in the Socorro Valley, New Mexico
- Overview of saltcedar biological control
- The Laws of Diminishing Yields in the Tropics
- Toward a Framework for Conducting Ecoregional Threats Assessments
- Monitoring Bird Populations in Relation to Fuel Loads and Fuel Treatments in Riparian Woodlands with Tamarisk and Russian Olive Understories
- Soil and Water Indicators of the Sustainable Rangelands Roundtable
- An overview of University of Alaska Anchorage, ENRI research on the spruce bark beetle infestation, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, 1997-2002
- Ground-Based Photomonitoring of Ecoregional Ecological Changes in Northwestern Yunnan, China
- Carbon pools - checking the deep end, before diving in (The ME Experience)
- Analyzing the economics of tamarisk in the Pecos, Rio Grande, and Colorado River Watersheds
- Monitoring Insects to Maintain Biodiversity in Ogawa Forest Reserve
- Social and Economic Indicators of the Sustainable Rangelands Roundtable
- Monitoring Riparian Restoration: A Management Perspective
- Urban Forest Health Monitoring in the United States
- Monitoring Patagonian Rangelands: The MARAS System
- Nonnative Invasive Plants in South Carolina: Combining Phase-2 with Phase-3 Vegetation Structure and Diversity Pilot Data to Enhance our Understanding of Forest Health Issues
- Socioeconomic Root Causes of Biodiversity Loss in Madagascar
- Tamarisk Mapping and Monitoring Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery
- Monitoring Ecosystems and Biodiversity at a Continental Scale--A Proposal for South America
- An overview of inventory and monitoring and the Role of FIA in National Assessments
- Wildfire, Exotic Vegetation, and Breeding Bird Habitat in the Rio Grande Bosque
- Saltcedar and Southwestern Willow Flycatchers: Lessons From Long-term Studies in Central Arizona
- Monitoring late-successional forest biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A.
- Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Program - monitoring effectiveness of sustainable forest management planning
- Aerial treatment of salt cedar within threatened and endangered species habitat - a success story
- Sequencing Conservation Actions Through Threat Assessments in the Southeastern United States
- Monitoring of Biodiversity Indicators in Boreal Forests: A Need for Improved Focus
- Southwestern Avian Community Organization in Exotic Tamarix: Current Patterns and Future Needs
- Monitoring the Relationship Between the Public and Public Lands: Application to Wilderness Stewardship in the U.S.
- The Politics and Science of Tamarisk
- Changes in riparian vegetation buffers in response to development in three Oregon cities
- Regional Monitoring of Coral Condition in the Florida Keys
- Use of EMAP Freshwater and Marine Data in EPA Region 10
- From Marshes to the Continental Shelf: Results of the Western Component of the US EPA National Coastal Assessment
- An integrated monitoring approach using multiple reference sites to assess sustainable restoration in coastal Louisiana
- Assessment of eutrophication in estuaries: Pressure-state-response and source apportionment
- Use of Data Layering to Address Changes in Nitrogen Management Zone Delineation
- Contributions to improve fallow system in Yucatan State Mexico
- Historic Hydroclimatic Variability in Northern Mexico
- A carbon inventory for Mexico
- Human and Nature Interactions: A Dynamic Land Base of Many Goods and Services
- The Resource Buffer Theory: Connecting the Dots from Conservation to Sustainability
- What's Law Got to Do with It? The Relationship of Law to Environmental Systems Management and Sustainability Research
- Establishing Empirical Bases for Sustainability Objectives
- Ecologic, Economic, and Social Considerations for Rangeland Sustainability: An Integrated Conceptual Framework
- A new dimension in evolution: Impacts of human consciousness on sustainability - and beyond
- Relating Change Patterns to Anthropogenic Processes to Assess Sustainability: A Case Study in Amazonia
- Disembedded Ideologies, Embedded Alternatives: Agricultural Biotechnology, Legitimacy, and the WTO
- Using Biodiversity Indicators to Assess the Success of Forecasting Adaptive Ecosystem Management: The Newfoundland and Labrador Experience
- The Ontario Benthos Biomonitoring Network
- Tri Community Watershed Initiative: Towns of Black Diamond, Turner Valley and Okotoks, Alberta, Canada Promoting Sustainable Behaviour in Watersheds and Communities
- The Role of Institutions of Higher Education in Sustainability: The Comprehensive, Public, Land-Grant University
- A successful experiment: The boundary spanner on the Bitterroot National Forest
- Partnerships in Community-based Approaches to Achieving Sustainability: The Atlantic Coastal Action Program
- Engaging Industry in Community Decision Making for a Sustainable Future
- Science, Communities, and Decision Making: How Can We Learn to Dance with Many Partners?
- GLOBE ONE: A Community-Based Environmental Field Campaign
- Devil's in the details: Using archaeological and historical data to refine ecosystem models at the local level
- Industrial Archaeology, Landscapes, and Historical Knowledge of Sustainability
- Social Memory of Short-term and Long-term Variability in the Sahelian Climate
- Resource-Balance Design and Monitoring: Assessing Sustainability of FSEEC-LandLab as BSU's First Sustainable Built-site
- Sustainability for the Americas Initiative: Land Design Institute, Ball State University
- The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring: A Case Study in Uganda
- Landscape Conservation and Social Tension in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Challenges for Implementing Sustainability
- Visualizing the Anthropocene: Human Land Use History and Environmental Management
- Globalization Then and Now: Increasing Scale Reduces Local Sustainability
- Assessment and monitoring of forest ecosystem structure
- International Center for Himalayan Biodiversity (ICHB): Conserving Himalayan Biodiversity--A Global Responsibility
- Integrating Vegetation Classification, Mapping, and Strategic Inventory for Forest Management
- High Resolution Wind Direction and Speed Information for Support of Fire Operations
- Exploring Use of Climate Information in Wildland Fire Management: A Decision Calendar Study
- Monitoring Ecological Resources within U.S. National Parks: Developing "Vital Signs" of Ecological Integrity for the Northeast Temperate Network
- Sustainable Forest Management Support Based on the Spatial Distribution of Fuels for Fire Management
- Geostatistical Evaluation of Natural Tree Regeneration of a Disturbed Forest
- Economic Impact of Fire Weather Forecasts
- Inventorying and Monitoring of Tropical Dry Forests Tree Diversity in Jalisco, Mexico Using a Geographical Information System
- Tree crown structure indicators in a natural uneven-aged mixed coniferous forest in northeastern Mexico
- Development of a transition pathway model using three traditional variables to describe the main structural characteristics of a forest stand type, size, and density
- Biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and the U.S. Man and the Biosphere Program: Past contributions and future directions
- The Multiple Species Inventory and Monitoring Protocol: A Population, Community, and Biodiversity Monitoring Solution for National Forest System Lands
- General Direction of the National Center for Environmental Research and Training (Cenica)
- Simulation Tools for Forest Health Analysis: An Application in the Red River Watershed, Idaho
- Integrating Fire, Climate, and Societal Factors into Decision Support for Strategic Planning in Wildland Fire Management
- Wildfire Mitigation and Private Lands: Managing Long-Term Vulnerabilities
- Temporal Tendencies of River Discharge of Five Watersheds of Northern Mexico
- Mitigating Wildfire Risk in the Wildland Urban Interface: The Role of Regulations
- Szendro - type Integrated Vegetation Fire Management--Wildfire Management Program from Hungary
- Decision support for evaluating the U.S. national criteria and indicators for forest ecosystem sustainability
- Forests on the Edge: A GIS-based Approach to Projecting Housing Development on Private Forests
- Monitoring Global Crop Condition Indicators Using a Web-Based Visualization Tool
- A conceptual view for advancing monitoring and assessment of land resources in the Mexican state of Jalisco
- Learning Center for Advancing Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability in the Mexican State of Jalisco
- A research/teaching inventory and monitoring Institute for the state of Jalisco, Mexico
- The Trust Fund for the Administration of the Forest Development Program, and the Inventory and Monitoring of Jalisco's Natural Resources
- Trace Chemical Detection through Vegetation Sentinels and Fluorescence Spectroscopy
- Developing a methodology to predict oak wilt distribution using classification tree analysis
- Web Services--A Buzz Word with Potentials
- Forest Stand Canopy Structure Attribute Estimation from High Resolution Digital Airborne Imagery
- A new FIA-Type strategic inventory (NFI)
- The Use of Open Source Software in the Global Land Ice Measurements From Space (GLIMS) Project, and the Relevance to Institutional Cooperation
- Forest Canopy Heights in Amazon River Basin Forests as Estimated with the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS)
- Aerial detection surveys in the United States
- Small Area Variance Estimation for the Siuslaw NF in Oregon and Some Results
- Aerial sketchmapping for monitoring forest conditions in Southern Brazil
- Naturalness as a Paradigm for Environmental Services Assessment
- A heuristic for landscape management
- Distributed GIS Systems, Open Specifications and Interoperability: How do They Relate to the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources?
- Spatial Statistical and Modeling Strategy for Inventorying and Monitoring Ecosystem Resources at Multiple Scales and Resolution Levels
- Statistical Strategy for Inventorying and Monitoring the Ecosystem Resources of the State of Jalisco at Multiple Scales and Resolution Levels
- The FIA Panel Design and Compatible Estimators for the Components of Change
- 1872 vs 2004: Mining claim meets the World Wide Web
- Spatial Modeling of Industrial Windfall on Soils to Detect Woody Species with Potential for Bioremediation
- On-Line Analysis of Southern FIA Data
- Remote Sensing, Sampling and Simulation Applications in Analyses of Insect Dispersion and Abundance in Cotton
- Planning Quality for Successful International Environmental Monitoring
- Strategic Planning for Sustainable Forests: The Plan Drives the Budgets Which Drive Results
- Implementation of the Montreal Process: An Oregon Case Study
- Canada's experience in applying C&I to measure progress towards SFM - perspectives from the National, Regional and local levels
- Maryland's Strategic Forest Lands Assessment--Using Indicators and Models for Decision Support
- Soil Disturbance Monitoring in the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region
- Northern Region Landbird Monitoring Program: A USFS-University of Montana Partnership Designed to Provide Both Short-term and Long-term Feedback for Land Managers
- The Process of Indicator Selection
- Using Information and Knowledge Required In Assessment and Management Applications for Sustainability
- Condition and trends of ecological and economic systems
- Problems and Issues Across Institutions and Programs
- Toward a Unified Knowledge-based Society for Sustainability -- Developing a Synthesis on the Methodological Level