Salamanders vs. the Simpsons: Community-based ecosystem monitoring

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dc.contributor.authorGayton, D.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:11:00Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:11:00Zen
dc.date.issued2003en
dc.description.abstractPublic concern for the environment and endangered species is growing. Canadian society has a more involved relationship with nature and natural resources than we did 50, or even 25 years ago. Ironically, this explosion of ecological awareness comes precisely at a time when governments at all levels are scaling back on their involvement in monitoring the environment. Monitoring programs funded through incremental or non-base budgets, combined with the steady pace of government ministry reorganizations, often result in short-term, fragmented, and ineffective government ecological monitoring. In a new phenomenon known as community-based ecosystem monitoring (CBEM), citizen groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), and individual citizens monitor a local species, ecosystem, or ecosystem process. CBEM can be viewed as government downloading of costs or as an historic taking-back of social responsibility. Benefits of CBEM include data acquisition, increased public awareness of nature and ecosystems, and opportunities for environmentalists to see decision-making first-hand. British Columbia is fertile ground for CBEM in that it has a well-developed NGO community, a stunning variety of ecological and natural resource issues, and a government that is currently downsizing its "dirt ministries." CBEM has a long-established precedent in the First Nations tradition of close and daily observation of nature.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier1545en
dc.identifier.citationBC Journal of Ecosystems and Management 3(1): 1-5en
dc.identifier.issn1488-4666en
dc.identifier.other1545_Salamanders_vs_the_Simpsons.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66451en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherKamloops, BC: FORREX-Forest Research Extension Partnershipen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.forrex.org/publications/jem/ISS15/vol3_no1_art1.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2003 FORREX Forest Research Extension Partnershipen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectEcosystem managementen
dc.subjectBiological assessmenten
dc.subjectSemiarid zonesen
dc.subjectTemperate zonesen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.subjectBiodiversityen
dc.subjectBest management practicesen
dc.subjectForest managementen
dc.subjectBiological indicatorsen
dc.subjectForest ecosystemsen
dc.subjectSustainable forestryen
dc.subjectConservationen
dc.subjectForestryen
dc.subjectForestsen
dc.subjectResource management toolsen
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen
dc.subjectBiodiversity conservationen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.titleSalamanders vs. the Simpsons: Community-based ecosystem monitoringen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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