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Abstract: SummaryIn this groundbreaking work, landscape ecologist Charles Curtin argues for a paradigm-changing, science-based approach to managing large landscapes and open spaces. We must return to "first principles," he explains, building innovative conservation from the ground up, based on solid theory and practical experience. Linking public engagement with complexity-based understanding, Curtin walks us through such foundational science concepts such as thermodynamics, ecology, sociology, and resilience theory, applying them to real-world examples from the years he has spent designing large-scale, place-based, collaborative research programs in the United States and around the world. His methods provide conservationists with ways to develop flexible processes that leverage creativity, complexity, and change to create novel, place-based solutions. -- Publisher description.

Contents: Preface -- Integrating Conservation and Complexity through the Perspective of Place -- Experiments in Post-normal Science in Southwestern Rangelands -- Experiments in the Governance of Maine's Coastal Fisheries -- The Conceptual Underpinnings of Open Spaces -- Resilience and the Social-Ecological Synthesis -- Practical Aspects of Sustaining Open Spaces.

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