Collaborative planning for wetlands and wildlife : issues and examples /

Conservation's most active and controversial efforts involve comprehensive regional plans that link state and local management with federal (EPA) guidelines. This collection of 11 case studies shows how the successful implementation of area-wide planning can be achieved while balancing natural protection and development. The cases reflect a wide geographic diversity of protection challenges (e.g., California's southern desert, Alaskan wetlands, Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, New Jersey's Hackensack Meadowlands, and the Florida Everglades). The cooperative integration of many groups and agencies makes regional planning particularly challenging, but it is to be America's most important environmental tool for the future. Each of these case studies has had notable results, and the work involved with each is related by contributing authors intimately connected to the protection efforts. The book offers valuable "real-world" lessons in regional environmental planning for regulators, conservationists, and developers. For the uninitiated planner there is a helpful introduction. General; upper-division undergraduate through professional. C. Leck; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick