Environmental risk managers and decision makers are beset by demands from multiple stakeholders with varying and often mutually exclusive interests. Understanding the trade-offs and implications of different options is critical to making sound and balanced decisions, and this new book examines various alternatives for determining the "value" of complex ecological resources. Discussions on the roles of ecology, sociology, and economics in environmental management shed light on the need for multifaceted information, while other sections explore the scientific underpinnings of ecological...