Book Stewardship Across Boundaries Editor Richard L. Knight And Peter Landres

Book Stewardship Across Boundaries Editor Richard L. Knight And Peter Landres - Every piece of land, no matter how distant or uninterrupted, has its limits. While border lines sometimes follow topographical or biological characteristics, they often follow straight lines of political dictates and compromise solutions. Administrative boundaries are almost always part of the scene, resulting in the loss of species and must be broken or migrated across the border, which increases the likelihood of threats from exotic species as contaminants or disrupting natural processes such as fire.

Despite the importance and spread of border problems, a remarkably small one has been written on cross-border issues. The order that fills the gap in the literature addresses the complex biological, social and economic effects of public and private land borders in the United States. With the contributions of natural resource managers, historians, ecologists, politicians, law scholars, writers: it develops a framework for understanding administrative boundaries and their effects on land and human behavior.

It demonstrates the efforts of those who cooperate to strengthen cross-border supervision, brings together a full complexity of boundary problems and provides an integrated regional strategy to achieve cross-border stewardship. The promotion would accelerate the open debate among students, scientists, managers, and activists. This is an important issue. It illustrates how legal, social and environmental conditions interact to create borders and why these factors should be integrated to improve land management. It also analyzes the needs of research and will help to facilitate critical thinking within the result of the scientific community in its new strategies for the control of borders and their effects.

About the author (2013)

1. Richard L. Knight is a professor of wildlife conservation at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. He is co-editor of Wildlife and Recreationists (Island Press, 1995) and A New Century for Natural Resource Management (Island Press, 1995).
2. Peter B. Landres is research ecologist at the USDA Forest Service Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute in Missoula, Montana.