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...

Most ecological risk assessments consider the risk to individual organisms or organism-level attributes. From a management perspective, however, risks to population-level attributes and processes are often more relevant. Despite many published calls for population risk assessment and the abundance of available scientific research and technical tools assessing risks to populations, risk assessors worldwide still have difficulty determining how population level considerations can be integrated into environmental decision-making.
Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment establishes a...