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  Conservation BiologyVolume 22 Issue 1, Pages 60 - 69 Published Online: 1 Feb 2008 ©2010, Society for Conservation Biology Published on behalf of the Society for Conservation Biology
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Implementing Ecosystem Management in Public Agencies: Lessons from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service Copyright 2008 Society for Conservation Biology KEYWORDS Bureau of Land Management • ecosystem management • federal agencies • natural resource agencies • stakeholder collaboration • U.S. Forest Service KEYWORDS agencias federales • agencias de recursos naturales • Buró de Gestión de Tierras • colaboración de interesados • gestión de ecosistemas • Servicio Forestal de E.U.A ABSTRACTAbstract: Ecosystem management was formally adopted over a decade ago by many U.S. natural resource agencies, including the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. This approach calls for management based on stakeholder collaboration; interagency cooperation; integration of scientific, social, and economic information; preservation of ecological processes; and adaptive management. Results of previous studies indicate differences in the extent to which particular components of ecosystem management would be implemented within the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management and suggest a number of barriers thought to impede implementation. Drawing on survey and interview data from agency personnel and stakeholders, we compared levels of ecosystem-management implementation in the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management and identified the most important barriers to implementation. Agency personnel perceived similarly high levels of implementation on many ecosystem-management components, whereas stakeholders perceived lower levels. Agencies were most challenged by implementation of preservation of ecological processes, adaptive management, and integration of social and economic information, whereas the most significant barriers to implementation were political, cultural, and legal. ABSTRACTResumen: La gestión de ecosistemas fue adoptada formalmente hace más de una década por muchas agencias de recursos naturales de E.U.A., incluyendo el Servicio Forestal y el Buró de Gestión de Tierras. Este enfoque requiere de la gestión con base en la colaboración de los actores involucrados; la cooperación entre agencias; la integración de información científica, social y económica; la preservación de procesos ecológicos y el manejo adaptativo. Los resultados de estudios previos indican diferencias en la extensión en la que el Servicio Forestal y el Buró de Gestión de Tierras pudieran implementar la gestión de ciertos componentes de la gestión de ecosistemas. A partir de datos de muestreos y de entrevistas con personal de las agencias y de los actores involucrados, comparamos los niveles de implementación de gestión de ecosistemas en el Servicio Forestal y el Buró de Gestión de Tierras e identificamos las barreras más importantes para su implementación. El personal de las agencias percibió niveles similarmente altos en la implementación de numerosos componentes de la gestión de ecosistemas, mientras que los actores percibieron niveles menores. Las agencias fueron más cuestionadas por la implementación de la preservación de procesos ecológicos, manejo adaptativo e integración de información social y económica, mientras que las barreras más significativas para la implementación fueron políticas, culturales y legales. Paper submitted December 4, 2006; revised manuscript accepted September 17, 2007. | 
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